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Why the GPL/Derivative Work debate doesn’t matter for WordPress themes

Source: http://freedomforip.org/2008/09/15/fair-use-reminder/ License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/

by Mike on 12/1/2009

in Copycat Law, First We Kill All the Lawyers, Perpetual Beta : Release, The Intarweb, Webloggia

Note: this is not legal advice. This is my opinion, nothing more. If you want legal advice, hire a lawyer.
How to piss people off with a legal argument
There are no atheists in a foxhole, it’s been said, and there are apparently no agnostics when it comes to the potential application of the [...]

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Why the GPL does not apply to premium WordPress themes

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by Mike on 11/22/2009

in Copycat Law, First We Kill All the Lawyers, Perpetual Beta : Release, The Intarweb, Webloggia

Update
Please check out the companion piece to this article, Why the GPL/Derivative Work debate doesn’t matter for WordPress themes

Why aren’t WordPress themes automatically covered by the GPL?
There’s been a firestorm brewing in the relatively small world of WordPress premium theme designers, after WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg broadly asserted that themes built to run on the [...]

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Matt: GPL applies to WordPress themes

by Mike on 11/18/2009

in Copycat Law, First We Kill All the Lawyers, Perpetual Beta : Release, The Intarweb

I knew that WordPress itself was covered by the GPL. What I didn’t know was that themes, even commercial themes, built to run on WordPress, also fall under the GPL, according to some GPL experts.

In this vid, Matt Mullenweg talks about the benefits of the GPL at some length, even going so [...]

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