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46cl / wp-boilerplate

[unstable] A Wordpress boilerplate created by 46cl
MIT License
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Add a license file #34

Closed nesk closed 9 years ago

nesk commented 9 years ago

What about MIT license @jvelo?

jvelo commented 9 years ago

I'm not a lawyer ; some seem to believe plugins & themes are derivative of WordPress code and would advise choosing the GPL or GPL compatible license to be compliant with WordPress license (see https://wordpress.org/news/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/ which is for themes but would apply for plugins as well I believe). There is still debate whether this conclusion is correct or not ; but I'd rather err on the safe side and go with GPL.

jvelo commented 9 years ago

Interestingly, Timber has changed from GPL to MIT at some point : https://github.com/jarednova/timber/commit/d1a781cdcdd81aebd33e094eb3e0a5ed27a4431c

jvelo commented 9 years ago

Actually, the MIT is compatible with GPL, so let's go for it.

nesk commented 9 years ago

Since theme and plugin configurations allow to specify any other license than GPLv2, I don't think Wordpress requires us to use the same license as them.

However, as stated in Wordpress' guidelines, the license of the theme/plugin should be compatible with the GPLv2.