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

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 00:36:15 UTC 2009


2009/10/23 Christopher Meredith <chmeredith at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Not the FSF, but a similar determination from the SFLC:

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/

Cheers,
Nick

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