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

[Bill Williamson]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Nick Morrott
<knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/


Yeah, I was confused.  It was the SFLC, not FSF.