[theme-reviewers] Pagelines Themes: Theme URI

[Chip Bennett]

It's not that the pro versions are not GPL-compatible; rather, it is that
the Theme Repository is being used to push users to the pro versions.

Pagelines (apparently) makes no mention of the availability of free versions
of the Themes - and also pushes the pro versions in at least THREE other
places within the backend of the free versions.

While it is of course acceptable to suggest users of a free version of a
product to check out the pro version - and I fully support such practice -
what the Pagelines Themes are doing clearly exceeds the line of propriety. I
don't think the free Themes are crippleware; but they are certainly
advertise/upsell-ware.

Take a look at one of the Themes yourself, and see if you think I am
exaggerating. I very well could be.

But, at the very least, Theme URI does need to point to an accurate,
appropriate, and relevant site. Linking to the "pro" version of a free Theme
does not meet this criterion.

Chip

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> Are not *all* of the Pagelines themes (free and pro) released under a GPL
> compatible license? Paid != incompatible.
>
> As far as I recall they are; and, having the Theme URI pointing to it would
> not be an issue as I understand it.
>
>
> Cais.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
>> Actually, credit zeo<https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1259#comment:5>
>> .
>>
>> (And ALL of Pagelines' submitted Themes are identical.)
>>
>> But it is a good reminder: always check the less-obvious things like
>> Theme/Author URIs, licenses for bundled components (I just found one today
>> that was bundled with a font that did not have a GPL-compliant license), and
>> the like.
>>
>> Chip
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Simon Prosser <pross at pross.org.uk>wrote:
>>
>>> i just looked at eco : http://www.pagelines.com/themes/ecopro lands at a
>>> buy now/demo page
>>>
>>> well spotted chip!
>>>
>>> On 10/06/10 18:10, Chip Bennett wrote:
>>> > All of the Themes submitted by Pagelines have a "free" and a "pro"
>>> > version. The "free" version is submitted to the Repository, but the
>>> > Theme URI for every single one points to the "pro" version of the
>>> > Theme. I just checked the Pagelines website. There are no indications
>>> on
>>> > the site that the "free" Theme versions even exist - at least that I
>>> > could find at first blush.
>>> >
>>> > I believe this is unacceptable, and should be addressed.
>>> >
>>> > I'm going to close as not-accepted the oldest such Theme in the review
>>> > queue, and that will be one of the primary comments.
>>> >
>>> > Chip
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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