Category Archives: GPL

GPL Isn’t a Good License for Proprietary Software

Posted on July 4, 2009 by Lloyd

Yesterday, I wrote about the clarification regarding WordPress Themes and the GPL (v2). Daniel Jalkut, who I featured as a personal WordPress Hero earlier this year, wrote one of the most interesting responses to “[WordPress] Themes are GPL, too“. Written … Continue reading →

| Tagged Collaboration, Community, GPL, Open Source, Participation, Proprietary Software, Software Developers, WordPress | 5 Comments

Commercial WordPress Themes’s PHP Code is GPL 2 Too

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Lloyd

I’m hoping that my boss Matt Mullenweg sharing the legal opinion on “Themes are GPL, too” will put the issue to rest for the majority of the community (emphasis mime):
“PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may … Continue reading →

Also posted in WordPress | Tagged GPL, GPL v2, licensing, Theme Licensing, WordPress, WordPress Themes | 28 Comments

Happy Birthday GNU!

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Lloyd

The GNU Project is 25 years young! And Richard Stallman and crew are working as hard as ever. Thank you!
The GNU Project is most famous for it’s versions of UNIX utilities and the GPL family of licenses. But whatever you … Continue reading →

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