<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thanks Emil, thanks Chip.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:45 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">Answered explicitly in the policy:<div><a href="http://wordpress.org/about/domains/" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/about/domains/</a><br>
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<div>"<span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22px">“WordPress” in sub-domains is fine, like </span><code style="line-height:22px;font-size:13px;font-family:Consolas,Monaco,'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><a href="http://wordpress.example.com" target="_blank">wordpress.example.com</a></code><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22px">, we’re just concerned about top-level domains.</span>"</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>With respect to logo usage: trademark and copyright are not equivalent. The logo and its use are protected by trademark, and governed by WordPress foundation trademark policy:</div><div><a href="http://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/" target="_blank">http://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>"</div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">Permission from the WordPress Foundation is required to use the WordPress or WordCamp name or logo as part of any project, product, service, domain or company name.</span><div>
"</div></blockquote><br><div>Fairly straghtforward.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Abhik Biswas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abhik@itsabhik.com" target="_blank">abhik@itsabhik.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Chip,<br><br>
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1. The word "WordPress" isn't allowed on Theme/Author/Credit domain? Is it allowed on sub-folder names? Like, <a href="http://wordpressdomain.com" target="_blank">wordpressdomain.com</a> or <a href="http://domain.com/wordpress/" target="_blank">domain.com/wordpress/</a>.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">2. Can the Theme/Author/Credit link use WordPress logo (anywhere in the page) since that licensed under GPL? (Everything on WordPress.org is GPL, am I right?)<br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">3. Is it required to obtain permission from WordPress Foundation to use WordPress logo in the theme website logo that offers premium versions of their free themes?<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thanks<br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Srikanth Koneru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tskk79@gmail.com" target="_blank">tskk79@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">Thought so but wanted to confirm, got a few more tickets to close, someone uploaded about 10 of these.<br>
</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:49 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">That's a show-stopper. As with licensing issues: there's simply no point in continuing the review.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Srikanth Koneru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tskk79@gmail.com" target="_blank">tskk79@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">Tickets with theme/author domain that contain WordPress are subject to automatic rejection or do they still have to be reviewed?<br>
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