[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:  enhancement  |       Status:  closed   
 Priority:  lowest       |    Milestone:           
Component:  General      |      Version:           
 Severity:  trivial      |   Resolution:  wontfix  
 Keywords:  needs-patch  |  
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Changes (by pishmishy):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => wontfix
  * milestone:  2.7 =>

Comment:

 I'm going to resolve this as invalid. Not even the Linux source marks each
 file explicitly as GPL licensed. I'm not a legal expert but I think that
 the license.txt is sufficient as the absence of a license when looking at
 a source file in isolation doesn't give you any distribution rights.

 What may need to be fixed is something like the Akismet plugin which is
 distributed as a package in it's own right but doesn't include any license
 details in the source. This isn't the Akismet trac though :-)

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