<p>Even as a child theme it would be unacceptable because it doesn&#39;t work without the plugin. </p>
<p>I&#39;d like to see what the admins have to say on this. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 8, 2012 5:12 PM, &quot;Bryan Hadaway&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:bhadaway@gmail.com">bhadaway@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Sounds like a child theme? If so, that&#39;s perfectly fine. Like:<br><br><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/bbpress-twenty-ten" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/bbpress-twenty-ten</a><br><br>I wouldn&#39;t jump to any conclusions. I&#39;d talk to the theme author and actually figure out what&#39;s going on and how it works first.<br clear="all">

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Jonny Cauvain <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:wp@stormfire.eu" target="_blank">wp@stormfire.eu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<p>Reject it on the grounds that it is broken out of the box and suggest that he build the framework into the theme itself </p><div><div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 8, 2012 1:13 PM, &quot;Nisha Singh&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:nisha@amiworks.com" target="_blank">nisha@amiworks.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


Yes, I think so ...  
the basic theme must work without having to install  framework.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Srikanth Koneru <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:tskk79@gmail.com" target="_blank">tskk79@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>



<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">i think the basic theme must work without having to install anything free or paid<div><div><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Jonny Cauvain <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:wp@stormfire.eu" target="_blank">wp@stormfire.eu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>I&#39;ve just checked the ticket from my phone, I&#39;m a little concerned that is looks exactly like the default Twenty Ten theme.</p>





<p>Not to mention that if the installable framework is a paid addon, that theme should be disallowed for obvious reasons. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sep 8, 2012 12:16 PM, &quot;Nisha Singh&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:nisha@amiworks.com" target="_blank">nisha@amiworks.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">




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<div>Hello</div><div><br></div><div> When i activate the &#39;Layout Engine Base theme&#39; (<a href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9131" target="_blank">http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9131</a>) for test, it is Showing message &quot;This theme cannot be run without Layout Engine framwork. Please click here install it&quot;. Is  it approprite or not?  </div>






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