I’m guessing that I’m one of the few who finds the news that Wordpress themes are also included in the GPL license that covers its original release. I originally switched (in a matter of hours) from Movable Type to Wordpress because of the MP licensing flap. I don’t like using tools that can be yanked out from underneath me. I’m sure someone is going to bring up my generalized ambivalence towards Mono here as a point of argument but they’re two different animals: ambiguous threats to act on unnamed patents on a project that generally uses the more permissive FOSS licenses for its work and something that seemed an awful lot like a bait and switch at the time.

Again, all the folks who do the actual smashing of thumbs work on WP are to be thanked and congratulated for sticking with the license and checking with SFLC to clarify how the GPL impacts third party themes. Theme developers who are all pissed about WP.org ‘fucking you over’ should consider that staying true to the spirit of the GPL in the organization of promoted plug-ins and themes has less to do with you than ‘us’.