On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Ian Stewart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian@iandanielstewart.com">ian@iandanielstewart.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
... I tweaked 1% of the markup or functionality in every template file in Twenty Eleven and made a new stylesheet that looking dramatically different I wouldn't want that to be distributed as a child theme but it sounds like this would still count as a derivative theme.</blockquote>
</div><br>We keep seeming to go round and round on this idea ...<br>
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A derivative work can be accepted if it presents a significant change
in design or functionality from the original theme it is based on. This
has always been the rule-of-thumb I have held and see no reason why it
should change; it is also extremely subjective but generally easy enough to find sense in. <br><br>I would agree with Ian's statement above, and accept Themes (provided they meet current guidelines) designed from that concept. The difference between my "derivative work" idea and a Child-Theme: the derivative still requires all of the template files (as stated in the guidelines); the Child-Theme essentially only needs the ones it "changed".<br>
<br><br>Cais.<br>