[theme-reviewers] jQuery Isotope

[Emil Uzelac]

great example :)

On Saturday, May 31, 2014, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> Right, here's the scenario that demonstrates the issue:
>
> Developer A releases a free Theme that bundles the GPL3-licensed jQuery
> Isotope. Developer B takes Theme A, and uses it to create a derivative
> work, Theme B. Developer B then decides to sell Theme B.
>
> According to the license terms of jQuery Isotope, Developer B must then
> purchase a commercial license (i.e. pay a fee) for an ostensibly
> GPL3-licensed library that came as part of Theme A.
>
> That's not compatible with GPL.
>
>
> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','emil at uzelac.me');>> wrote:
>
>> we discussed before terms are no good there, therefore not compatible
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, May 31, 2014, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','justin at justintadlock.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Isotope is released under two licenses, one is the GPL v3 in open source
>>> project. The other is a commercial license.
>>> https://github.com/metafizzy/isotope
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, May 31, 2014, Gary Barrett <gary at headwaythemes.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> A theme called 'Bearded' is on the repo and is currently a featured theme. It contains jQuery Isotope, which
>>>>> is released under a non-GPL compatible license.
>>>>>
>>>>> The theme - http://wordpress.org/themes/bearded <https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16610>
>>>>>
>>>>> The script -http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/bearded/1.0.4/assets/js/libs/jquery.isotope.min.js <http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/sampression-lite/1.4.1.1/lib/js/jquery.isotope.min.js>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Gary
>>>>>
>>>>>
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