Let 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:<div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><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><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><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>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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>
<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" target="_blank">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="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif">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/" 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>
<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">
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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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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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