[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15769: WordPress ships with copyrighted "Hello, Dolly!" lyrics which could potentially terminate the GNU GPL of the package

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Fri Oct 14 20:51:22 UTC 2011


#15769: WordPress ships with copyrighted "Hello, Dolly!" lyrics which could
potentially terminate the GNU GPL of the package
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 Reporter:  novasource    |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  General       |     Version:  3.0.2
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch     |
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Comment (by hakre):

 Replying to [comment:62 jane]:
 > Postponing to look into possibilities, may run contest in next dev cycle
 so people have plenty of time to enter.

 Uhm, you can make any fun you like, but if you postpone you could have
 actually removed the infringing material in the meanwhile which you
 didn't.

 You can replace the empty string with anything else later on at will, I
 won't stop you.

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