[theme-reviewers] License: None (Public Domain)

[Emil Uzelac]

Public Domain is not really a license, but yes it is
compatible<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PublicDomain>with
GPL. CC0 is suggested, not required.


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Isn't no license and public domain non-GPL compatible because I can
> incorporate it into a non-free work? I could be wrong, but the reason CC0
> exists, and is GPL-compatible, is that it prevents someone from reusing
> something in a non public domain work.
>
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Zulfikar Nore <zulfikarnore at live.com>wrote:
>
>> Sounds good to me - thanks for the confirmation :)
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 19:15:45 -0500
>> From: emil at uzelac.me
>> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] License: None (Public Domain)
>>
>>  Sure you can: http://unlicense.org/
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:14 PM, carolina poena <myazalea at hotmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> yes but saying "none" -*it doesnt have a license*,
>> is not the same as saying "public domain"    (Unless you can tell that
>> the item is created before a certain date what ever date applies in your
>> country.)
>>
>> Most of the time when I contact creators (on deviantart for example) ,
>> "none" just means that the creator doesn't know how to license their
>> creations.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 20:02:19 -0400
>> From: chip at chipbennett.net
>> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] License: None (Public Domain)
>>
>>
>> Public Domain is Public Domain. CC0 is simply one way of calling
>> something Public Domain. Simply declaring something as "Public Domain" is
>> fine.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Zulfikar Nore <zulfikarnore at live.com>wrote:
>>
>> To my understanding, the only Public Domain license compatible with GPL
>> for WordPress.org purposes is the CC By 0 license - but lately I've been
>> coming across some themes with resources whose license is declared as "None
>> (Public Domain) and I've been advising theme authors that the
>> license/copyright must be explicitly declared.
>>
>> So my question here is where do we stand with the aforementioned license?
>> Acceptable or not?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Zulf
>>
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