[theme-reviewers] Theme License

[Srikanth Koneru]

But can themes be released with MIT license  instead of GPL v2/v3?


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Konstantin Kovshenin
<kovshenin at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes, MIT is compatible with GPL.
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Stanko Metodiev <stanko at metodiew.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > According to Wikipedia, and Kovshenin's blog post,  MIT license is GPL
> > compatible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
> > and
> http://kovshenin.com/2012/the-mit-license-is-compatible-with-the-gpl/.
> > So my guess is yes, but it would be good if somebody could confirm this.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Ola Łączek <ola at bodera.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> I've got a question about theme license. I'm reviewing a theme that
> >> declares MIT license (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). Is this
> >> acceptable?
> >> Here
> >> (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses/)
> I
> >> couldn't find MIT listed as GPL compatible, but then I did independent
> >> search which seemed to indicate that MIT license is GPL compatible.
> Then I
> >> also remembered that we allow for bundling MIt licensed resources with
> >> themes and now I'm lost :)
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Ola Laczek
> >>
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> >
> >
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