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Bug#607608: unblock: wordpress/3.0.3-1



On 12/20/2010 05:38 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> What is "GPL-compliant lyrics" supposed to mean?  Either they're free,
> and there's no need to replace them, GPL or not.  Or they're not free,
> and we need to not ship them, in which case a patch is not enough.  I
> just don't get what the GPL has to do with this.

The "hello plugin" is an example plugin released under GPL. This plugin
contains in its source code the full lyrics to a copyrighted (and  work,
a song called "Hello Dolly". That patch replaced that lyrics.

Cheers,
Giuseppe.

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