I don't think this is the same issue. We are talking about selling non-GPL data (banner images, theme design data files). The theme itself remains GPL. We're talking about data to use with the theme/plugin.<br><br>
The question relates to the policy of WP of not providing non-GPL content on a site linked to directly from a theme/plugin in the repository.<br><br>From Chip's answer, and past discussions, I think it is okay for such a site to include third party advertisements and indirect links to other external commercial sites sites. But selling non-GPL content directly from such a site is not allowed.<br>
<br>I'm sure that if ads and other external links were not allowed, there would a lot of plugin/theme support sites in violation of policy.<br><br>Bruce<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Yulian Yordanov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yul.yordanov@gmail.com" target="_blank">yul.yordanov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><b>These people would probably prefer to not
GPL their designs</b>.</blockquote></div>
This is against GPL as it's written in their webpage
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html</a><br>
<blockquote type="cite">The GNU General Public License does not
permit incorporating your program
into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine
library, you
may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary
applications with
the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser
General
Public License instead of this License. But first, please read
<<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html</a>>.</blockquote>
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Yulian<div><div class="h5"><br>
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