[theme-reviewers] Theme License

[Spencer Piontkowski]

But that contradicts this page: http://wordpress.org/about/license/, 
which states:
"There is some legal grey area regarding what is considered a derivative 
work, but we feel strongly that plugins and themes are derivative work 
and thus inherit the GPL license."

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From: "Otto" <otto at ottodestruct.com>
To: "Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers." 
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Sent: 1/31/2014 4:33:43 AM
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme License

>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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