<div dir="ltr"><div>I would be fine with a generic banners, or advertising such as Google
AdSense or similar. I would even be fine with other advertising provided
it is not the sole purpose of the "landing" page of the URI, but given
the guidelines in general for the URI landing pages, those would likely
not be accepted to begin with but also not necessarily for specific ads.<br><br></div>Asking a reviewer to follow every link on the landing page to yet another site is not realistic ... a review of the "main" pages on the same domain as the landing page should be sufficient to find any issues that may be considered too far into the grey or to show cause for other unacceptable issues.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Edward Caissie<br>aka Cais.</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:04 PM, 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">
<div dir="ltr">...which is fine for this specific case, but I'm more interested in what precedent we set for other reviews.</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Kirk Wight <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwight@kwight.ca" target="_blank">kwight@kwight.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The submitter has thrown up a new page at that URL with nothing but their <a href="http://wp.org" target="_blank">wp.org</a> profile: <a href="http://thememotive.com/" target="_blank">http://thememotive.com/</a><div>
<div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 February 2013 11:53, 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"><div dir="ltr"><div>I could get overruled if I'm misinterpreting here, but it is, IMHO, a bridge too far to ask Theme Reviewers to evaluate all advertising on links used as Theme URI/Author URI. So, it depends on the specific advertisement in question.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>There's a difference between selling or promoting non-GPL Themes, and a generic advertising banner. Linking to one's own Themes for sale, or an affiliate link to non-GPL Themes? Sure. That's reasonable to ask the developer to remove.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But a generic banner ad?</div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Chandra Maharzan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maharzan@gmail.com" target="_blank">maharzan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I guess you have to note to remove that to the author.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
<div>On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Srini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:srinig112@gmail.com" target="_blank">srinig112@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"><div><div dir="ltr">Here's a ticket I'm reviewing: <a href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11123" target="_blank">http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11123</a><div>
<br></div><div>The author URI has a themeforest banner ad. As far as I know this is a violation of theme requirements as themeforest distributes themes that are not fully GPL licensed, and I'm not sure how to proceed. Clarification on this appreciated.</div>
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