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WordPress theme licensing

By Dougal | Published: July 2, 2009

There is finally an official answer to the question of whether or not WordPress themes must “inherit” the GPL license that WordPress itself uses. Matt asked the Software Freedom Law Center to examine the WordPress source and how themes fit in. The final, official answer to whether themes must be GPL? Yes and no. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged CSS, freedom, freedomzero, gpl, images, JavaScript, Law, Legal, license, licensing, PHP, Themes, WordPress | 13 Comments

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