[theme-reviewers] Commercial, Themeforest and WordPress.Org

[Japheth Thomson]

Ah, I think I'm with you now:

So two completely separate themes, one on WP.org and one on TF.net, that
don't link to each other in any way = fine.

Linking to TF.net somehow via a WP.org theme = not fine.

Right?

Cheers,
Japh



On 29 July 2013 05:46, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> Hi Japh,
>
> Yes, for as long as I can remember. To be honest, it's not something that
> we spent a lot of time investigating, but before Envato introduced the 100%
> GPL license option, if someone advertised their ThemeForest-hosted Themes
> or Plugins from ThemeURI or AuthorURI, we would have to "not-approve" the
> Theme, as a matter of WPORG policy.
>
> (That's why I was one of the biggest fans of the move to offer a 100% GPL
> license, so that the issue could go away.)
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Japheth Thomson <japh at envato.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chip,
>>
>> Did I read you correctly there? Are you saying that if someone is selling
>> themes or plugins on ThemeForest or CodeCanyon, they must use the 100% GPL
>> license, otherwise they are not allowed to also distribute other themes on
>> WordPress.org?
>>
>> Has that been the rule for long?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Japh
>>
>>
>>
>> On 29 July 2013 05:33, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>>
>>> If you host on wordpress.org, any Themes or Plugins that you sell on
>>> ThemeForest must be distributed under the ThemeForest 100% GPL license.
>>> Other than that, the usual commercial/up-sell Theme guidelines apply.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Ünsal Korkmaz <unsalkorkmaz at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I am preparing to release my first commercial child theme that using
>>>> FirmaSite <http://wordpress.org/themes/firmasite> as parent theme.
>>>> FirmaSite theme's support & information site is
>>>> http://theme.firmasite.com
>>>> I will put commercial child theme to ThemeForest as gpl theme. My
>>>> questions are;
>>>>
>>>>    - Is there any restriction on this?
>>>>    - Can i put a page on http://theme.firmasite.com about this
>>>>    commercial child-theme?
>>>>    - Can i put link to ThemeForest in commercial child-theme's page?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ( Sorry if its unrelated to this mail list )
>>>>
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