[theme-reviewers] "Clone" Themes and Trademark

Chip Bennett chip at chipbennett.net
Fri Nov 12 16:02:44 UTC 2010


Your 2 cents and my 2 cents are pretty much identical on this question, I
think...

Chip

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> My 2 cents: Themes should be original. Copying an existing website
> (especially a well known one) should not be allowed in the repo.
>
> Copying the look and or feel of something else that is not a website
> is debatable. If it's unique enough and just sorta reminds you of that
> thing, then I'd say that's fine. There's some creativity there, in
> that you're making a website out of the look of something else which
> is not a website.
>
> -Otto
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