Final month there was some on-line dialogue round full GPL licensing and the Presswp Marketplaces. It began when one in every of our TF authors was barred from supporting, talking at and volunteering at WordCamps as a result of he was promoting on ThemeForest. Whereas ThemeForest themes promote with a GPL compliant license, WordCamp tips require the merchandise to be fully licensed below the GPL to ensure that the vendor to be allowed to take part within the methods listed above.
I posted a response to the ban, and a submit about how we're transferring ahead. As I acknowledged within the second submit, most necessary to me is to get the neighborhood’s enter on the talk. Since we’ve been engaged on our licensing usually, this month we put out a survey to ThemeForest and CodeCanyon authors asking a bunch of licensing questions, together with a couple of GPL associated ones.
As I promised in that second submit, at this time we’re publishing a subset of the survey results relating to the GPL options. They’re taken from a bigger presentation from our knowledge crew, with a few additional slides I’ve thrown in to elucidate the contents.
Subsequent Steps
After getting this neighborhood suggestions, we at the moment are placing into the works an non-obligatory 100% GPL license which authors in GPL-based classes (equivalent to WordPress or Drupal) could make use of. Will probably be fully as much as authors whether or not they use this selection. The brand new choice needs to be out there in the direction of the tip of March, and we’ll be posting on Notes about how authors could make use of it.
Thanks to everybody who participated within the survey. I’m wanting ahead to doing extra of this sort of temperature verify with the neighborhood! Go Knowledge!
