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WordPress, themes, and derivative works

WordPress, themes, and derivative works
[Front] Posted Jul 28, 2010 16:19 UTC (Wed) by jake

The WordPress community witnessed the end of a high-profile war of words last week when the distributor of a popular commercial theme for the blogging platform agreed to license some of his work under the GPL. But was that relicensing really necessary? This article looks at the nature of WordPress themes and why they are considered to be derived works based on WordPress itself.

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