I'm guessing you're referring to this ticket?<div><a href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9299">http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9299</a></div><div><br></div><div>I've run into this site before. Here's what I said then:</div>
<div><a href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7420">http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7420</a></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>"<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For future reference, indicated Author URI/Theme URI site distributes Themes under a non-GPL-compatible license (i.e. link-removal purchase license). Themes from such sites will not be accepted for hosting in the repository.</span>"</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>It appears that this statement is still accurate:</div><div><a href="http://smthemes.com/terms-of-services/">http://smthemes.com/terms-of-services/</a></div><div>and also:</div><div><a href="http://smthemes.com/">http://smthemes.com/</a></div>
<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="color:rgb(57,57,57);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px">Welcome to SMThemes.com. We offer a wide variety of free WordPress themes. You can download and use all our templates for free, or purchase free links version of template</span></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The site still mentions paid link-removal, and themes are CC-licensed.</div><div><br></div><div>The sponsored-Themes prohibition is a WPORG repository policy. There's nothing inherently contra GPL to put paid links in a Theme. What *is* contra GPL is to require a paid license for the end-user to remove those links, and to distribute that Theme under CC-By.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So yes: this ticket, and any other ticket submitted for a Theme affiliated with this site, should be not-approved.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Chip</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Vicky Arulsingam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vicky.arulsingam@gmail.com" target="_blank">vicky.arulsingam@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 url of the theme I'm reviewing contains this page:
<a href="http://smthemes.com/links/" target="_blank">http://smthemes.com/links/</a> <div>This isn't acceptable for the repository?</div><div><br></div><div>The theme itself doesn't contain any sponsored links</div>
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</div>-----<div>Vicky Arulsingam</div><br>
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