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[Vid Luther]

I was just being an ass to be an ass and give you a hard time. I'm sleepy
:).

vim rules.

good night.

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Ryan Bilesky <rbilesky at gmail.com> wrote:

> not to start an argument but that's not entirely true, it depends on how
> you
> look at open source.  If you look at open source as a program licensed with
> freedoms to modify the code freely than yes, if you look at open source as
> a
> program where the source is available (ie not closed source) then not
> necessarily.
>
> Look at Creative Commons, it requires you to keep such links, the
> attribution requirement, though depending on what licensed is chosen you
> can
> still be able to otherwise modify the work, or even distribute it or
> derivative works.  Now some could argue that CC doesn't constitute open
> source, but again it comes back to the definition used.
>
> :P
> FTW
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Vid Luther <vid at zippykid.com> wrote:
>
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> > sorry for this..but..
> >
> > Ryan Bilesky wrote:
> > > I agree I have ran into themes that do that with the footer, in an
> effort
> > to
> > > force you to keep their links, so when they do that I will rebuild the
> > > footer html myself then remove their links just to spite them lol, but
> > hey
> > > its GPL I can do that.
> >
> > Just to be a pedantic ass... it's open source, that's why you can do it,
> > not because it's GPL :).
> >
> > It could be BSD license, or Apache, or PHP, or MIT.. and you could still
> > do it... technically speaking of course.
> >
> >
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