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Comment on GPL-tards want to steal your work by notaresource

notaresource — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:41:13 +0000

Are you arguing that typing the name of a WordPress function is sufficient to trigger a copyright violation, or that one must copy some other WordPress code to produce a working theme?

Comment on GPL-tards want to steal your work by Rog

Rog — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:41:14 +0000

WordPress themes do contain WordPress code though.

You’d be welcome to write an alternative theme engine that worked on a plugin to get around this.

Legally, they’re sound.

Nobody wants to steal anyone’s work, they just want people to adhere to the licenses / contracts that they’ve agreed to. Anyone who’s made a WordPress theme and thought they weren’t required to follow the license was just being naive. When you make a theme, you are leveraging a popular open source project. You have the choice of making a theme for other software or using a different theme engine.

The dishonest ones here are those who’re happy to leverage open source and assume it’s public domain. It’s not. There’s a cost, not in dollars, but in following the license. The people who try to leverage and also refuse to adhere to that license: Those are the true dicks here.

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Les thèmes Wordpress doivent être libres | Encre de Lune — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:22:48 +0000

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Comment on GPL-tards want to steal your work by notaresource

notaresource — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:15:40 +0000

Using != Copying.

What’s your argument, that I can’t type the string “have_posts()” without violating the WordPress copyrights? Do I now need to GPL license this comment?

If you have a real argument based on the text of the GPLv2 or US copyright case law, I’m ready to debate. You should start by explaining why someone must agree to the GPL in the first place in order to develop a theme / plugin (Section 5), and if they had agreed, why Section 0 doesn’t exempt their work when distributed without a copy of WordPress.