This week at LWN: WordPress, themes, and derivative works

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 6, 2010 3:01 AM EDT
LWN.net; By Nathan Willis
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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. Prior to last week, Chris Pearson had argued fiercely that WordPress themes are not derivative works of WordPress itself — as the project has long claimed — and thus he was free to sell his Thesis theme under his own restrictive licensing terms.

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