Is license compatible with WordPress?

[famous]

Is license compatible with WordPress?

[ziodave]

PS: I tried e-mailing [email protected], but I got the following error, '550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist'

[rezen]

Great question! Reading about it more about MPL it's compatible with GPL by default. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License

[andrewdeandrade]

Yes, the license is compatible with the GPL since it is the vanilla MPL without the copyleft exclusions. We debated whether or not to include those exclusions and decided against it so people could mix famous in with GPL code.

We do however encourage those who want to use famous with GPL code to also publish any changes they make to famous separate from the GPL code they mix it with and to make in known in the famous source code files that those files are also available in MPL form elsewhere.

i.e.

1. Fork famous as a separate repo
2. Make modifications and improvements to that repo without adding any GPL code to that repo.
3. Include the code from your MPL fork in your GPLed code with a modified header that lets people know that they can get an MPL copy of the source by going to the MPL-licensed fork of yours.

or

1. If you don't need to make a fork since you aren't modifying famous, just be sure to modify headers to let people know where MPL-licensed code can be found so they can use that license if they prefer.

If mixing in GPL-licensed code with MPL-licensed code is unavoidable (in the case where the only way to accomplish something is to copy and paste GPL-licensed code into the famous MPL-licensed code, please be careful to clearly mark that that specific file is only GPL and don't include it in your MPL-licensed fork)

@ziodave thanks for that information. It will be fixed shortly.

Let me know if you have any of you have any additional questions

[ziodave]

That's great, thanks @malandrew

[andrewdeandrade]

We'll add this information to a FAQ on the site for people who have this question later.