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Old 06-16-2012, 12:53 PM  
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Originally Posted by miss_bellabellini View Post
I'm also not an expert on GPL. But it helps to read an actual case study of a company walking away from GPL, causing an huge scandal in the WP/GPL community, and then compromised by releasing the framework under a split GPL.

Chris Pearson relents and Thesis is now available under a split GPL
Excerpt: "The split GPL will allow the parts of Thesis that use WordPress code to be freely shared. All the PHP code is GPL, while CSS and JavaScript code sections remain proprietary."
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