It is important to pay attention to licenses and terms even when the words “GPL,” “Open Source” and/or “Free” are used to describe a work. The GPL License is the standard for free and open source software.
There is GPL and then there is GPL-with-a-catch.
If you are building your own web site, this can matter. For example it is quite common for web site themes to be released under GPL.
It is also quite common to restrict the application of the GPL license to the php or java script coding and to attach different licensing to the css and images that compose the full theme.
In many cases the conditions are very reasonable. Releasing ccs and images under the Creative Commons License (CCL) is frequently a matter of an author wanting to receive acknowledgment for his or her work. The CCL allows authors to specify how they want that acknowledgment to be made. continue reading…
