Title: the GPL
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# the GPL

 *  Resolved [webomagazine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webomagazine/)
 * (@webomagazine)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-gpl/)
 * This might sound silly, but I am lost here, i submitted my new theme, I want 
   to give away free to the world, and got a email back from the theme editor at
   wordpress.org saying
 * “Licensing terms are not compatible with the GPL”
 * iv been racking my brain trying to find how to add the terms, but I cant see 
   any other themes with the GPL on them or a read me file saying here is the GLP….
 * This is my theme (the site runs the new theme template) [http://webomagazine.com/wordpress-themes/](http://webomagazine.com/wordpress-themes/)

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 *  Thread Starter [webomagazine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webomagazine/)
 * (@webomagazine)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-gpl/#post-1043106)
 * anyone? bump
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-gpl/#post-1043120)
 * Bumping doesn’t really help. It ruins the whole [http://wordpress.org/support/view/no-replies](http://wordpress.org/support/view/no-replies)
   that some of us use.
 * I’m not familiar with the theme submission process, but have you replied back
   to that e-mail and asked them? See [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/contact/](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/contact/)
   for the contact info.
 * I did not see any obfuscated code or references to anything such as “You can’t
   change this or that” so you look good on that front.
 * The only thing that was odd to me in your zip file was the searchform1.php file.
   It included your google.com.au partner code in it.
 * Your read me.txt should be README.txt formatted with the tags that it needs. 
   Download any other theme from WordPress.org and you’ll see what I mean.
 * Last thing is you may want to explicitly add a statement about the licensing 
   in your README.txt file or in your style.css description section.
 * Contact WordPress.org using that e-mail from that link and re-submit the theme.
   It might just be human error that caused them to reject it, or they found something
   off kilter that I did not see.
 *  Thread Starter [webomagazine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webomagazine/)
 * (@webomagazine)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-gpl/#post-1043126)
 * thank you jdembowski. your very helpfull.

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