[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #6663: Wordpress source files do not correctly mark themselves as GPL

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#6663: Wordpress source files do not correctly mark themselves as GPL
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 Reporter:  mattlgnu   |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect     |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal     |    Milestone:  2.7      
Component:  General    |      Version:           
 Severity:  normal     |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  has-patch  |  
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Comment (by darkdragon):

 1. You need to have PHP comments with the {{{<?php ... ?>}}} tags.
  1. Some of the files you are documenting as "Part of WordPress..." are
 actually external libraries separate from WordPress and Automattic does
 not hold the copyright to.
  1. Automattic does not hold the copyright to the code or at least not to
 my code. If Automattic wants the copyright to my code, I only offered my
 code as GPL. It would be better to just say "@copyright WordPress".
 Automattic can't own the copyright to WordPress, because so many other
 people also hold copyrights to their code. In order for Automattic to gain
 that copyright, they would have to contact the original B2 author and
 contributors, as well as the past and current WordPress contributors. If
 Automattic owned the copyright, they could easily say that WordPress is
 now under a commercial license tomorrow and we'll all be screwed, but
 luckily Automattic isn't that evil (...yet).
  1. You should look into phpdoc for file level comments, some files
 already have file level phpdoc. If you add the {{{@license GPL 2.0
 <link>}}}, which is a single line directing to the GPL file, then that
 would be okay.


 You have to fix the first problem first, because committing your patch as
 it is now would violate the copyrights of the external files and would
 break (or at least show the comments that WordPress is GPL, which is plain
 useless to the visitors).

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