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

[Otto]

He didn't edit anything. That's just what that theme had in it as of
version 0.1.2.

https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/cleanr/0.1.2/style.css

That was corrected in later versions of the theme.



-Otto


On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:25 AM, andrew nevins <andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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