<div dir="ltr">A Child Theme is a dependent work, but is a separate work from the original. Thus, the footer credit link should be relevant to the Child Theme, and there's no really good reason why a Child Theme shouldn't be held to the same credit link requirements as stand-alone Themes.<div>
<br></div><div>The appropriate place to attribute the original work is in the Theme documentation. A second footer credit link is unnecessary.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Edward Caissie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com" target="_blank">edward.caissie@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 would be inclined to allow the second credit link for a Child-Theme by a different author than the Parent-Theme (essentially the first link serves as an attribution for the original/Parent-Theme author) although without a reference to the trac ticket I will reserve my final opinion.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Edward Caissie<br>aka Cais.</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Ola Łączek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ola@bodera.com" target="_blank">ola@bodera.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr">Hello!<div><br></div><div>The guidelines say that author is allowed to put one credit link in footer. I'm reviewing a child theme where author put his credit link in the footer, but also left the parent theme credit link - in effect there are two credit links. Is that ok or should one of them be removed? If so which one?</div>
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<div><br></div><div>Ola</div></font></span></div>
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