[mythtv-users] A new theme on the way...

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 01:47:37 UTC 2009


On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Nick Morrott
> <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/10/23 Christopher Meredith <chmeredith at gmail.com>:
>>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:
>>>> Serious question:  Given the recent determination from the FSF about
>>>> WordPress, isn't this theme GPL licensed by default?  If not, why not?
>>>>
>>>> They found javascript and CSS were not required to be GPL because they
>>>> are loaded by the web browser, not by wordpress itself, but that any
>>>> themes (whether or not they are "executable code") are considered
>>>> derivative work if a GPLd application is interpreting items in it,
>>>> which would seem to be the case here.
>>>>
>>>> It is, of course, up to the myth copyright/left holder(s) as to
>>>> whether or not to enforce it.
>>>
>>> Bill, could you provide a link? I'm not familiar with this determination.
>>
>> Not the FSF, but a similar determination from the SFLC:
>>
>> http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/
>
>
> Yeah, I was confused.  It was the SFLC, not FSF.

Well even if the xml is forced into being GPL, surely the images aren't.


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