I’ve woken up today (23rd Jul ’10) to find that Chris Pearson has made Thesis split licence. The PHP is GPL, the css, javascript and images aren’t. It’s a good thing. Details over at Mashable
This post is a reaction to, or perhaps it’s better described as my thoughts on, the situation that exists regarding WordPress and its licence, the GNU General Public License (GPL).
I’m also going to be quoting and answering points raised on Liz Jamieson’s website over at Big Satchurday. Liz wrote a blog-post titled Thesis, The GPL and WordPress – What Does It All Mean? which was prompted by a discussion over at Mixergy between Mat Mullenweg and Chris Pearson. Mat is a lead developer at WordPress and is its public face. Chris is the developer of Thesis, a theme for WordPress.
I was going to reply to Liz on her site but realised that it would be a lengthy entry, so I decided to expand my reply into an entry on my site, right here.
New Look
I decided to do a bit of work on a new look for this site on Monday. I began just messing about in Firefox using Firebug and I was attempting to see how easy it would be to mimic the look and feel of a few sites I’ve seen recently. It wasn’t long before I’d got the basis of a new theme installed on my local copy of WordPress and the natural progression would be to test out on a live site, like here.
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