[theme-reviewers] Some review queries

[Chip Bennett]

1) Full-text license in a license.txt is fine (actually, that is the
convention for GPL-licensed works)
2) Any reference to ThemeForest must be to GPL-licensed works
3) MIT is GPL-compatible. Please refer to the link to accepted
GPL-compatible licenses at http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Licensing
4) All bundled resources must *explicitly* state copyright and license.
(Users should not have to hunt/search for this information)

2 & 4 are definitely grounds for immediate non-approval. Any licensing
issue is a show-stopper.


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:51 AM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net>wrote:

> Just started reviewing <https://themes.trac.**wordpress.org/ticket/12133<https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12133>
> >
>
> 1. Is just "license.txt" allowable for License URI? I've always assumed it
> should be a full url - e.g. <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/**gpl-2.0.html<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
> >
>
> 2. The author's site (as defined in Author URI) includes links to at least
> 1 theme that is only available from Themeforest under a Regular License. No
> mention of GPL.
>
> 3. According to the theme's readme.txt file, the theme is built on the
> Foundation Framework (including images and icons) which has an MIT license.
> I don't see that as allowable in <http://codex.wordpress.org/**
> Theme_Review#Licensing <http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Licensing>
> >.
>
> 4. The theme includes a bundled font (presumably from the Foundation
> Framework)  but I cannot find any details of its license.
>
> I'm currently assuming that points (1), (3) and (4) are potential grounds
> for immediate rejection. Less sure about point (2).
>
> Whilst my wavering is partly based on my own lack of confidence in
> reviewing themes (this inly my second theme review) but also on the fact
> that this theme author already has at least 2 themes in the Repo. So I
> would have expected some of these points to perhaps have been covered in
> reviews for those themes. The last thing I want to do is reject a theme
> when another has been accepted with similar "issues".
>
> Mel
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