[development] Administration page patch committed

Gabor Hojtsy gabor at hojtsy.hu
Thu Aug 3 21:48:22 UTC 2006


Since Copyleft does not specify the GPL license explicitly, it can be 
understood differently. The output of the theme should not suggest 
otherwise. A GPL License.txt is added by default to project downloads, go 
try it.

Gabor

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Gary Feldman wrote:

> Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
>> Doh, this theme is copyleft licensed...
>> 
>> Some portions of this website's design are part of the Sands theme for
>> Drupal, which is copyleft (c) 2005-2006 Samat Jain. All rights reserved.
>> 
>> This theme should change license, or should be removed from the Drupal 
>> repository, since it does not comply to our policies. It should be GPL to 
>> stay in contrib. It definitely is not core compatible license wise.
> Copyleft isn't a license.  It's a buzzword used by the GNU folks as a 
> catch-all for licenses that meet their goals, which obviously includes the 
> GPLs.  A quick look at the CVS repository for it shows that there is no 
> license.txt file, and the few files that I checked have no copyright notice. 
> So I think it's clear that if any license applies, it will be the GPL as 
> required by Drupal's upload policy.
>
> Gary
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