[wp-forums] Using non-GPL licensed WordPress.org themes

[andrew nevins]

Got it :)


On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com> wrote:

> Licensing only really exists for distribution. I can say that the
> thing on my own site is under the "my cat will shoot laser eye-beams
> at you" license and it doesn't mean a damn thing until I try to sell
> it to someone else.
>
> Note, that doesn't mean that I condone changing the license on a theme
> that you don't actually own the rights for. Aside from being utterly
> meaningless (and 100% NEVER going to stand up in any kind of legal
> challenge), it's, let's just say, kind of jerky. But the reasons for
> our policy on non-support come down to 1) wanting to support a theming
> community that reflects WP philosophy (where what he's doing sucks on
> philosophy, but it has absolutely no impact on the rest of the
> community) and 2) practical reasons to do with access to their code
> (which is freely available in the repo anyway)
>
> Disclaimers: I don't make these policies. And my cat doesn't actually
> have lasers THAT I KNOW OF.
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:01 AM, andrew nevins
> <andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do you feel like that for non-GPL themes in general?
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Legally speaking, no, they can't change the license -- only the actual
> >> copyright owner (that is, the theme author) can do that. However, it's
> >> a silly thing they did in their own copy of the theme for their own
> >> site, so it's not like they're trying to distribute a relicensed copy.
> >> I don't see that it should make one bit of difference to whether they
> >> can get support or not, any more than we'd refuse support because
> >> someone had changed the color of their left sidebar.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:24 AM, andrew nevins
> >> <andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Someone took the 'Cleanr' theme and changed the license on it to "All
> >> > rights reserved", and then created a support thread on the forums for
> >> help
> >> > with their theme.
> >> >
> >> > Is it right for me to say that we don't support their theme because
> it's
> >> > non-GPL? Or can they not actually change the license of the theme,
> even
> >> if
> >> > they state it in the stylesheet?
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-cleanr-h2-css-being-overruled?replies=4&view=all
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