<font color="#333333"><font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">TF most likely followed WP.org guides: </font></font></font><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Licensing">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Licensing</a></font><div>
<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:22px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Themes are </span><b style="text-align:left;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">required</b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:22px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> to be 100% GPL-licensed, or use a </span><a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses/" class="external text" title="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses/" style="text-align:left;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(76,166,207);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">GPL-compatible license</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:22px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">. This includes all PHP, HTML, CSS, images, fonts, icons, and everything else. </span><b style="text-align:left;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">All</b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:22px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> of the theme must be GPL-Compatible.</span></div>
<div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:22px"><br></span></font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Rankin, Matthew W. (Student) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrankin@my.ccsu.edu">mrankin@my.ccsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma">I like the approach taken by ThemeForest. Any PHP code which contains WordPress functionality must be released under the GPL, but the CSS/HTML/Javascript and images used in the
theme are copyrighted by the theme author. That being said, I don't think most premium theme stores are in violation of the GPL.<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org</a> [<a href="mailto:theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org</a>] on behalf of Emil Uzelac [<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com" target="_blank">emil@themeid.com</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [theme-reviewers] WordPress Theme Stores Violating GPL<br>
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<div>This afternoon I came across this post <a href="http://www.wpmods.com/wordpress-theme-stores-violating-gpl/" target="_blank">http://www.wpmods.com/wordpress-theme-stores-violating-gpl/</a> what do you guys thing?</div>
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<div>P.S. Note that this is not site-specific issue, we need a general opinion only, try to isolate sites listed in the post.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Emil</div>
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