[wp-hackers] meenews: obfuscated code

Chip Bennett chip at chipbennett.net
Thu Nov 25 13:08:28 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Iain Cambridge <wackiebackie at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> If you look at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/ You will see
> clause 5 of the requirements being if no license is specified it is
> GPLv2.
>
> Indeed it does say that, but that statement doesn't make it so.

Only the *copyright holder* can specify the license of a copyrighted work.
So, if no license is specified, then *there is no license*.

(It's the reason that Themes submitted for inclusion in the Theme Repository
are required to declare their license.)

Chip


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