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The makers of things are the makers of rules. Wordpress gets to decide what license to use. Wordpress gets to define what is derivative. It's their project t
by pkaler 16y ago
The makers of things are the makers of rules.
Wordpress gets to decide what license to use. Wordpress gets to define what is derivative. It's their project they get to do whatever they like.
There is no point in arguing what is derivative or not derivate. The project owner gets to decide that.
Wordpress decided that themes and plugins are derivative. They decided JS, CSS, images/resources, XML-RPC, RSS are NOT derivative.
Them's the rules. Don't like them then pick another platform.
- earl 16y ago"Wordpress gets to define what is derivative." No. The combination of US law and wp's license decide what is derivative.
- rprasad 16y agoWordPress doesn't get to unilaterally decide what is derivative. Project owners do not get to decide that. They do get to decide what license to use, and what the terms of the license are. A court will decide whether themes are derivative. If themes are derivative works that the copyright owner can control, then the same expansive reasoning would mean that movie studios can decide whether you can make copies of that BR movie you just bought, game companies could bar you from trading saves, and publishers/authors could bar you from talking about that novel you just read. Copyright law doesn't change just because open source gets involved, and we shouldn't change copyright law just b/c an open source project is on a power trip.