I was more reacting to the guy just removing the link from the template. Not that templates need to be <parent license> or not.<br><br>My basic argument is: just because the author of a template failed to comply with the GPL, that does not give any rights to other people to disregard the license said template is distributed with GPL instead. All you can do is report the licensing infringement, sue the author or ask him nicely. You as a user are not entitled to just change the license.
<br><br>But I was kinda interested in this issue, and I spent a good amount of time pouring over it this morning...<br><br>I can't help but think about the nVidia driver in linux though... how are plugin's developed for lifetype different than nvidia's closed source driver developed for linux using the exposed APIs?
<br><br>Check out these links:<br><a href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-gpl-license-question/">http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-gpl-license-question/</a><br><a href="http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=184557">
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=184557</a><br><a href="http://cmsreport.com/node/1091">http://cmsreport.com/node/1091</a><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Jon Daley</b> <<a href="mailto:plogworld@jon.limedaley.com">plogworld@jon.limedaley.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
How are you reading the links you sent? To me it sounds like the<br>first one requires us to write an exception clause (which the original<br>author mentioned that wordpress doesn't.<br> The second article seems to imply we are in the "borderline" case
<br>at best, and probably more likely that the plugins would have to be<br>released under GPL.<br><br>On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Matt Wood wrote:<br><br>> I'm not sure he's right in doing that.<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WMS">
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WMS</a><br>> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins</a><br>><br>> -Matt<br>><br>
> On 9/22/07, Jon Daley <<a href="mailto:plogworld@jon.limedaley.com">plogworld@jon.limedaley.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> <a href="http://wordpress-plugins.feifei.us/10/wordpress-themes-are-gpl-code/">
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