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Hello,<br>
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being a Team Review Team Trainee I stumbled upon a theme review
guideline that is somewhat ambiguous:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/guidelines/license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/#copyright">https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/guidelines/license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/#copyright</a><br>
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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>
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My knowledge is, a Copyright registration is not mandatory
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_registration#Is_registration_required.3F">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_registration#Is_registration_required.3F</a>).<br>
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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>
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Thank you,<br>
Bego (@pixolin)<br>
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