[wp-hackers] meenews: obfuscated code

[Chip Bennett]

That statement isn't legally binding.

The most obvious reason is the utter lack of
privity<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privity>.
For example, that statement is found
here<http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/>,
but the request for SVN access is on a completely different
page<http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add/>.
I suppose there must be a legally binding way for WPORG to claim a
non-exclusive right to distribute all repository-hosted code under GPL
(which is essentially what they are attempting to claim with that
statement), but the current setup certainly doesn't suffice.

Chip

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Iain Cambridge <wackiebackie at gmail.com>wrote:

> Not being a lawyer I am not sure and high chance I am very wrong. But
> aren't those requirements like a legal requirement for using it and by
> using the svn hosting you have subsequently agreed to there for that
> clause would affected the licensing of and copyrighting of public
> domain items such the plugin previously discussed? If not then can
> that clause be removed to remove confusion?
>
> Iain
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> wrote:
> > 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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