[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16039: Copyright Problem: Original Copyright Statement, Licensing Information and Disclaimer removed from kses.php

[WordPress Trac]

#16039: Copyright Problem: Original Copyright Statement, Licensing Information and
Disclaimer removed from kses.php
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 Reporter:  hakre         |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |    Version:  3.1
 Severity:  blocker       |   Keywords:
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 '''Copyright Problem: Original Copyright Statement, Licensing Information
 and Disclaimer removed from kses.php'''

 The wordpress core makes use of a library called
 [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kses/ kses] by Ulf Harnhammar.

 The original copyright and licensing statements as well as the disclaimer
 have been removed from the file in the wordpress package
 ([http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-
 includes/kses.php?rev=17171 /wp-includes/kses.php]).

 With such a removal, [http://kses.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kses/kses-
 main/COPYING?view=markup the conditions (GPL)] to distribute the
 copyrighted work are not met (see §1).

 Additionally, the conditions to create a derivate of the software are not
 met (see §2).

 As explained, the conditions for distribution were not met by the
 committing author (r649) - but the work has been distributed from
 wordpress.org servers since ca. 2003-12-23 / Wordpress 1.0-alpha-2.

 To the best of my knowledge and according to all publicly available
 licensing terms, this was and still is an attempt of distribution other
 than the expressly provided by/under the license. Which terminates "your"
 rights under that license (see §4).

 '''Suggested Actions:'''

 IANAL, but as those rights terminated automatically, the original
 copyright holder should be contacted by wordpress.org to learn how to gain
 GPL compliance again. Next to communicating with the author(s), the
 project should decide how to deal with the code in question.
 [http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-guide.html More
 information about GPL Compliance is available here].

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