<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_extra">On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Ola Łączek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ola@bodera.com" target="_blank">ola@bodera.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello!<div><br></div><div>I just noticed this theme in WordPress repo:<br>
<a href="http://wordpress.org/themes/buzz" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/themes/buzz</a>,</div><div>which is strangely similar visually to my own Corpo theme (colors and fonts changed):</div>
<div><a href="http://wordpress.org/themes/corpo" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/themes/corpo</a><br></div><div>I'd like your input on this - am I overreacting here, and if not, is there anything that can be done about it?</div>
<div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">At a quick glance, the actual code of the two themes does not realistically look similar at all. For example, those corner bits under the header, on the left and right side: in your theme, those are CSS borders. In theirs, they used two PNG images.<div>
<br></div><div>While the look is certainly very similar, it's not particularly unusual for themes to look alike. But code-wise, they have almost nothing in common.<div><br></div><div>While we do not allow direct copies of themes without significant changes (that's what parent/child themes are for), this doesn't appear to be a case of copying of the code. Additionally, all themes in our directory are licensed under GPL Compatible licenses, so if somebody wants to copy, modify, and re-release your theme, then they can do so. They must retain copyright attribution notices and such, but there's nothing preventing them from copying the theme and releasing it themselves.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>-Otto</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>