[kwlug-disc] Wordpress themes must be GPL

[Raul Suarez]

Fair and corrected.

Raul Suarez



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--- On Thu, 7/29/10, Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com> wrote:

From: Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Wordpress themes must be GPL
To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
Received: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 12:55 PM





  

 
On 07/29/2010 12:36 PM, Raul Suarez wrote:

  
    
      
        
        --- On Thu, 7/29/10, Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

        
> The FSF's interpretation is like any other interpretation. The
only
thing the can additionally
        > contribute is their intention since they
have created it. However, they have no more
        > authority in regard of
interpreting the interrelationship between the GPL and statutory/
        >common
law as any other person trained in law.

        
        

        
        I think you are again confusing the spirit (Which is the
intention under which the license was written) with the letter, which
is the bottom part of your paragraph.
        
      
    
  



Correction:



A license is a permission, not a law. The question is in what sense
such a permission *put* additional obligations on you. That part is
restricted by law.



You could very well put out a license saying, "if you use this
software, you agree to give me all your possessions you have".



However, the spirit of "law" says that such a condition would *not* be
unenforceable.



- Ralph



 


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