http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Tag: GPL en Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:26:38 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/would-copying-the-theme-of-bbpressorg-be-illegal#post-12631 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:36:59 +0000 Trent 12631@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>The forum theme I put up was also with permission of Matt himself before I even put it up for download ;)</p> <p>Trent </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/would-copying-the-theme-of-bbpressorg-be-illegal#post-12630 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:36:41 +0000 sambauers 12630@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I believe the theme for this forum is available for download somewhere, it might even be Trent's theme? </p> <p>The GPL doesn't work that way. The idea of "linking" is very compiler specific terminology, it doesn't really apply to php scripts calling other php scripts.</p> <p>Changing GPL code is OK and you can't be forced to redistribute it (hand over source), but if you do, the source must be made available and the licensing must remain the same GPL license. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/would-copying-the-theme-of-bbpressorg-be-illegal#post-12629 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:08:23 +0000 livibetter 12629@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I think all bbPress themes are protected by GPL since they must call bbPress functions.</p> <p>By GPL, you can modify, redistribute, or even almost change nothing to re-release as long as you don't claim yourself is the only one copyright holder if you are not. Just don't replace "Copyright YEAR HOLDERS", but append new one with your name. Moreover, If someone asks for the source, you have no reasons to refuse the request.</p> <p>PS. I am not sure I am totally correct. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/would-copying-the-theme-of-bbpressorg-be-illegal#post-12628 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:25:48 +0000 talbina 12628@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hello, </p> <p>Lets say you were making a bbpress, or another site, like a job board or a social networking site. </p> <p>If would it be ok if i used the same header/menu, and background?</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/gpl-and-contributor-attribution#post-12213 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:11:59 +0000 sambauers 12213@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I've added the GPL license to the trunk of bbPress as well as a README containing copyright/attribution to contributors to bbPress.</p> <p>You can view the current README file here:<br /> <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/README" rel="nofollow">http://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/README</a></p> <p>I think this is a nice way to acknowledge the individual contributions of people involved in the development of bbPress.</p> <p>I haven't dug very deep (or even at all) into the changesets to find out past contributors. If you believe you should be on the list then please raise a new ticket in Trac pointing out what you contributed and when (the actual changeset number is really handy). I'll validate it then add you as soon as I can.</p> <p>If anyone out there who has some experience in the field of applying the GPL to projects wants to constructively criticise the way I have applied the license to the project then please go ahead. However we will not be applying headers to every file at this stage. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/about-the-license#post-11406 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:06:55 +0000 sambauers 11406@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>bbPress is released under the GPL v.2</p> <p>Unless you plan to redistribute (i.e. give away or sell) your modified code, you are under no obligation to release your modified source code. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/about-the-license#post-11405 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:55:43 +0000 pacino 11405@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>What's the license that bbpress is using? GPL?</p> <p>And, I am wondering whether it is possible to use bbpress (with some modification) in a commercial website and open source only the modified bbpress (that is, the rest of the website will not be open sourced)?</p> <p>Thanks </p>