I wonder what's the percentage of submitted themes with images downloaded from the Internet. I think that many themes do use random images for design.<br clear="all"><br>Mario Peshev<br>Training and Consulting Services @ DevriX<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Edward Caissie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com">edward.caissie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The author should be contacted and politely notified their themes in the repository require updating due to a copyright issue with the Theme URL (not to mention any other potential issues updating to current standards requires).<br>
After a fair amount of time for a response, we can continue with further actions as required. For example, if they do not respond in 2-3 days (?) their themes go into suspension for Copyright issues ... otherwise we will have to see what the author says.<br>
<br>Hopefully they will choose to update all of their themes, then these themes will fall under the standard review process and any issues of note, such as potential image issues, can be addressed.<br><br><br clear="all">
Cais.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com" target="_blank">emil@themeid.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<font color="#333333"><font size="2"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">That's not the only issue: ThemeURL: <a href="http://tsegwordpressthemes.com" target="_blank">http://tsegwordpressthemes.com</a> is in violation of <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/domains/" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/about/domains/</a> as well as all the rest from the same author <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/profile/tsegseo" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/profile/tsegseo</a> @Otto should someone get in touch with them or this qualifies for suspension? (well I know that it does, however they have few Themes in repository)</font></font></font><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Kirk Wight <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwight@kwight.ca" target="_blank">kwight@kwight.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I understand licenses for binary assets such as images, fonts and icons are to be explicitly listed in the readme.txt.<div><br></div><div>There's also a tool called <a href="http://www.tineye.com/" target="_blank">TinEye</a> that can be used to find other uses online of an image; it's not perfect, but it can be useful for reviewers (it will show a lot of images that are registered in online stock libraries, for example).</div>
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<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 December 2011 23:35, Dion Hulse (dd32) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wordpress@dd32.id.au" target="_blank">wordpress@dd32.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On 7 December 2011 15:12, Angelo Bertolli <<a href="mailto:angelo.bertolli@gmail.com" target="_blank">angelo.bertolli@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Ian Stewart wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I was traipsing through the theme directory theme by theme as I am<br>
>> sometimes wont to do and happened upon this theme with a beautiful header<br>
>> image.<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/silent-film" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/silent-film</a><br>
>><br>
>> It looked like a stock photo to me and made me wonder if the original<br>
>> license of the stock photo (if it is one) allowed it to be made free and if<br>
>> that's something being checked on in theme reviews (and in this theme in<br>
>> particular).<br>
>><br>
><br>
> It is my understanding that photos are not required to be put under the GPL,<br>
> as they are not themselves derivative works.<br>
><br>
> This doesn't mean that such a photo is licensed to be distributed though...<br>
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</div>Correct, Some people will subscribe to the notion that only the Theme<br>
PHP code is required to be GPL - this is a accepted licensing opinion<br>
from what I'm aware of - Lets not go into this battle here however, as<br>
it's a moot point:<br>
<br>
Submission to the WordPress.org Themes repository however has a much<br>
stricter licensing arrangement, ALL of the theme - PHP, JS, CSS, Flash<br>
Objects, Fonts, Icons, and most importantly in this case Images, MUST<br>
be GPL licensed, or under a GPL-compatible license.<br>
This is covered under the Theme Review guidelines:<br>
<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Licensing" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Licensing</a><br>
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This allows for WordPress.org org to be a repository of Plugins and<br>
Themes which are 100% GPL'd, with Zero restrictions placed on usage.<br>
By all means, You should be able to take images from any theme on<br>
WordPress.org and use it in a GPL-compliant manner without license<br>
issues.<br>
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