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<DIV>Is banning from submitting to theme-trac for people not complying or is it
for people who are being intolerably difficult?</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=chip@chipbennett.net
href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">Chip Bennett</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 22, 2012 4:07 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org
href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [theme-reviewers] Clarification</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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me go a step farther: <B>Otto, please ban "Smthemes" from submitting to
Theme-Trac.</B> We want absolutely nothing to do with developers who put this
garbage in their Themes:
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<DIV><?php /* </DIV>
<DIV>All links in the tag <div class='smthemes'> are attribution of the
theme developers and should remain intact. </DIV>
<DIV>It's protected by Creative Commons License (<A
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</A>).</DIV>
<DIV>Warning! Your site will not be able to work if these links are edited or
deleted.</DIV>
<DIV>You can buy this theme without footer links online at <A
href="http://smthemes.com/buy/animepress/">http://smthemes.com/buy/animepress/</A></DIV>
<DIV>*/ ?></DIV>
<DIV><div class='smthemes'>Designed by <a href='<A
href="http://smthemes.com/category/food/">http://smthemes.com/category/food/</A>'
target='_blank'>Free WordPress food themes</a>, thanks to: <a
href='<A href="http://wpdis.co/">http://wpdis.co/</A>' target='_blank'>Free
WordPress magazine themes</a>, <a href='<A
href="http://lizardthemes.com">http://lizardthemes.com</A>'
target='_blank'>LizardThemes.com</a> and <a href='<A
href="http://fthe.me">http://fthe.me</A>'
target='_blank'>FThe.me</a></div></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
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<DIV>Chip<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Chip Bennett <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net"
target=_blank>chip@chipbennett.net</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>I'm guessing you're referring to this ticket?
<DIV><A href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9299"
target=_blank>http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9299</A></DIV>
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<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"
target=_blank>http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7420</A></DIV>
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<DIV>"<SPAN
style="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>
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<DIV>It appears that this statement is still accurate:</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://smthemes.com/terms-of-services/"
target=_blank>http://smthemes.com/terms-of-services/</A></DIV>
<DIV>and also:</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://smthemes.com/"
target=_blank>http://smthemes.com/</A></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; COLOR: rgb(57,57,57); 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>
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<DIV>The site still mentions paid link-removal, and themes are
CC-licensed.</DIV>
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<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>
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<DIV>So yes: this ticket, and any other ticket submitted for a Theme
affiliated with this site, should be not-approved.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
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<DIV>Chip</DIV>
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<DIV class=im>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></DIV>
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<DIV class=h5>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>
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<DIV>The theme itself doesn't contain any sponsored links</DIV>
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<DIV>Vicky Arulsingam</DIV>
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