[theme-reviewers] Credit links in footer

Stephen Cui scui2005 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 26 00:01:55 UTC 2013


English language discussion? May I interpret this way:

credit-link removal option are required to be disabled by default.

In other words, it is double negative: credit-link are not removed by
default.




On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Merci Javier <mercijavier at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> If used, credit-link removal options are required to be opt-in (i.e.
> disabled by default, rather than enabled)
>
>  The guideline somehow translates to:
>
> Theme authors are not required to provide credit link removal options.
> However if the theme author provides such option, "then the default state
> of that option must be for the credit links to be *disabled* ".
>
> Why penalize a theme author who provides a user-friendly option to remove
> the credit link? It's looking more like protecting a theme author who wants
> to make it hard for a regular user to remove the credit link.
>
> I don't recall that specific guideline last time I did a theme review. I
> didn't see this new guideline discussed at all. Theme Review Admin's
> prerogative?
>
> Mercime
>
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