[theme-reviewers] Theme License

Otto otto at ottodestruct.com
Fri Jan 31 12:33:43 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Konstantin Kovshenin
<kovshenin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Which is strange though, because a WordPress theme (and a plugin) is
> derivative work of WordPress and has to inherit the GPL license. So I
> guess a theme can't be MIT licensed :)

You are incorrect and yes, a theme can be MIT licensed. Compatible is
compatible and it's fine.

-Otto


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