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

[Bill Williamson]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.


Correct, they're served, not interpreted.