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Its definitely murky at best if they are GPL'd. I would venture to say no. I would also to venture to say that it would be trivial for wordpress to push out a n

Its definitely murky at best if they are GPL'd. I would venture to say no. I would also to venture to say that it would be trivial for wordpress to push out a new version (with new wording on the license and a reworked template system) which could make any compatible plugins/themes GPL'd if they wish to move forward and have support for new versions of wordpress.

jrockway 17y ago
No, they can't do this unless they have copyright assignment from all the authors. If I contributed code to Wordpress under the GPL, I would expect that that code be GPL'd forever. Wordpress can only change the license if they remove my code. (I haven't contributed to Wordpress, but other people theoretically have.)
- DanBlake 17y ago
  Hence why I said a new version of wordpress where previous versions of modifications and themes are non functional. Hence if you wish for your product to be ported to a new version you would need to agree to the new terms.
  - jrockway 17y ago
    If they haven't rewritten Wordpress to deal with the plethora of obvious technical problems, it seems unlikely that they would rewrite it for mildly-obscure legal reasons.
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