[mythtv-users] A new theme on the way...

[Bill Williamson]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Christopher Meredith
> <chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:
>>> Serious question:  Given the recent determination from the FSF about
>>> WordPress, isn't this theme GPL licensed by default?  If not, why not?
>>>
>>> They found javascript and CSS were not required to be GPL because they
>>> are loaded by the web browser, not by wordpress itself, but that any
>>> themes (whether or not they are "executable code") are considered
>>> derivative work if a GPLd application is interpreting items in it,
>>> which would seem to be the case here.
>>>
>>> It is, of course, up to the myth copyright/left holder(s) as to
>>> whether or not to enforce it.
>>
>> Bill, could you provide a link? I'm not familiar with this determination.
>
>
> http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/
>


Let me add, I know the difference between XML and PHP and how they are
interpreted, but in the mythtv case the XML is treated more as
declarative programming (just like XAML in the MS world) than as a
pure data record for transport.