<div dir="ltr">Each theme need that copyright/license declaration, seems you get copyright just by creating a theme, no need to register.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Bego Mario Garde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pixolin@yahoo.com" target="_blank">pixolin@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hello,<br>
<br>
being a Team Review Team Trainee I stumbled upon a theme review
guideline that is somewhat ambiguous:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/guidelines/license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/#copyright" target="_blank">https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/guidelines/license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/#copyright</a><br>
<br>
Themes are required to declare copyright and license information
as specified by the applicable license, e.g.:<br>
"Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme, Copyright 2014 WordPress.org"<br>
"Twenty Fourteen is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL"<br>
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Do I understand it right, that this only applies to themes that
*have* a copyright and license information ("if a theme has a
copyright, then do it this way…") or does that mean, each theme
*needs* a copyright and license information ("Themes are required to
declare copyright!")?<br>
<br>
My knowledge is, a Copyright registration is not mandatory
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_registration#Is_registration_required.3F" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_registration#Is_registration_required.3F</a>).<br>
<br>
Could someone give me a hand and explain, how it is meant … and
probably rephrase it in the guidelines to make it less ambiguous?<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
Bego (@pixolin)<br>
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