[theme-reviewers] GPL and limiting usage

[Chip Bennett]

Google?

(Seriously. Not only is it a basic operating principle of Theme Reviews -
developers can't add clauses that restrict usage - but it's also just plain
common sense. How could a license grant the right to copy, modify, and
distribute a work, but not grant the right to *use* that same work?)


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Chip, anywhere i can read up on "Restricting use is just as much of an
> incompatibility with GPL as would be restricting copying, modifying, or
> distributing." ?
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>
>> FYI, Akismet was asked and answered in one of the previous 94 emails in
>> this thread. But to reiterate:
>>
>> No.
>>
>> Akismet provides a server, that performs a service. That service is
>> evaluation of content to determine if that content is spam. The algorithms
>> used to evaluate that content reside on Akismet's servers. The API allows
>> the client (Plugin) to interact with the server, to send content to be
>> evaluated, and then returns the evaluation.
>>
>> There is absolutely no issue with this whatsoever.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Daniel <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I know that this is more of a plugin question, but would Akismet fall
>>> under the same matter as far as GPL is concern? Or am I missing
>>> something?
>>> Regards,
>>> Daniel Fenn
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Seriously! Unless someone can answer Justin's question what's the
>>> debate
>>> > about? As far as I can tell I can download Pagelines, remove the DRM
>>> and
>>> > redistribute it without violating their terms. Sounds GNUy to me.
>>> >
>>> > (and yes I know that when it comes to DRMs there are issues related to
>>> the
>>> > DMCA, but for that point to be relevant we would have to require GPL3,
>>> not
>>> > GPL2, which we don't.)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Justin Tadlock <
>>> justin at justintadlock.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Sorry, I haven't seen the evidence of this before.  That's all new to
>>> me.
>>> >> There's been a lot of posts.  It should be easy to understand that
>>> maybe
>>> >> I've missed something through all of the discussion.  Can you (or
>>> anyone)
>>> >> please share where, in their terms or wherever, this information is
>>> coming
>>> >> from (the information where you're not allowed to copy, modify, or
>>> >> distribute the code)?
>>> >>
>>> >> I don't need anything more than that.  I don't even care that much
>>> about
>>> >> this discussion.  I'm just interested in seeing the answer to my
>>> question.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On 10/9/2013 6:25 PM, Bryan Hadaway wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> @Justin
>>> >>
>>> >> "If they limit how you can use the code that has been distributed to
>>> you,
>>> >> that'd be a problem."
>>> >>
>>> >> That's what they're doing. What is a theme, a theme is code, they're
>>> >> saying you can only use this code x amount of times for x amount of
>>> dollars.
>>> >>
>>> >> That's from the horses mouth, what more do you need? I'm happy you're
>>> >> trying to understand, but this has all been covered over and over.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> _______________________________________________
>>> >> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>> >> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>> >> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> _______________________________________________
>>> >> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>> >> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>> >> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > _______________________________________________
>>> > theme-reviewers mailing list
>>> > theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>> > http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>> >
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> theme-reviewers mailing list
> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/attachments/20131009/304c1207/attachment-0001.html>