Add "Freedoms" screen to admin

[jane]

We've talked about having a screen in admin with user rights, like Thunderbird does. Patch has rights page (text fine-tuned/approved by Matt) and adds footer link. Gracias to rboren, markjaquith, and westi for guidance.

Would have liked plugins and themes to link to plugins.php and themes.php instead of .org pages, bt yanked that code when Ryan pointed out that those screens require cap checks, over my head. if anyone wants to add, so no caps = .org page and with caps = admin screen, would love it, but can wait a version, too.

[jane]

Someone could also replace my deprecated ol start="0" with some fancy code.

[nacin]

Awesome. :)

[ryan]

Do we want to limit this to the network admin for multisite?

[jane]

Replying to ryan:

Do we want to limit this to the network admin for multisite?

I wouldn't think so... point is to publicize the rights granted by GPL.

[nacin]

In [17875]:

Add 'Your Rights' screen to the admin. props matt, jane, ryan, markjaquith, westi. see #17383.

[nacin]

In [17878]:

s/Your Rights/Rights/ in the footer. see #17383.

[nacin]

In [17879]:

Make the footer text code a bit easier to read. see #17383, #17384.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

This ticket strikes me as a bit surprising, considering the number of GPL/license-related tickets that were opened in the past two years or so. Btw, have they all been fixed/cleared/closed?

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

It appears not: #16921, #16514, #16269, #15769, #15584. Seriously... If we want to add a rights.php page in WP itself, we should be able to look at ourselves in a mirror with a straight face.

[nacin]

In [17894]:

Switch to 'Freedoms'. see #17383.

[markjaquith]

In [17904]:

Fix URL typo in freedoms.php. props duck_. see #17383

[kawauso]

Aren't plugins in the repository meant to be GPLv2 compatible, not just "GPL or a similarly free and compatible license"? Not that all are, but that's another matter.

+1 to Denis-de-Bernardy's point as well.

[hakre]

Replying to kawauso:

Aren't plugins in the repository meant to be GPLv2 compatible, not just "GPL or a similarly free and compatible license"? Not that all are, but that's another matter.

And next to the wordpress.org repository: Everybody can install add-ons (plugins/themes) on theirs with a different licensing. With those as with the parts of the wordpress code that are distributed under GPL but on their own license (for example TinyMCE), it should be made visible that those parts exist and which their authors and terms are, so a user can really learn about her/his rights.

Edit: TinyMCE is probably not the best example, but I think you get the idea.