[theme-reviewers] Licensing issues

[Edward Caissie]

Although I will still give them a short grace period (8 hours?) ... we were
the ones that missed these issues as a group.

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> ok, ok ... let's get the Suspend stick out.
>
> We need a full list of all the authors themes that this is an issue with
> and a notice written and sent.
>
> Then they can be suspended.
>
> Updates will get un-suspended quick enough with our review priority
> sequences.
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> Cais.
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> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>
>> This is the primary reason why I check for license before anything else -
>> it's way too easy to overlook the myriad licensing issues. I always check
>> for:
>>
>> 1) style.css License and License URI headers
>> 2) Presence (and content) of license.txt
>> 3) footer credit/copyright links
>> 4) functions.php, for anything hooked into the footer
>> 5) PHP file headers (a sneaky place for "do not remove" type statements
>> 6) HTML comment blocks (another such sneaky place)
>>
>> Licensing and (egregiously) improper credit links are two "showstoppers"
>> for me. I will close a ticket without further review, for either one.
>>
>> Chip
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Just a heads up on licensing issues. Saw this post in the forum and
>>> did some investigating:
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-readme-in-this-theme
>>>
>>> First, the requirement to keep links intact is directly against the
>>> review guidelines. Easy to miss though, I missed it first too.
>>>
>>> However, the second one took me a minute to research and be sure.. The
>>> "GNU Free Documentation License" is NOT compatible with the GPL. That
>>> one is way too easy to miss:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License#GPL_incompatible_in_both_directions
>>>
>>> So this is just a reminder to always check licenses when they're
>>> stated in files and to make sure they're GPL compatible.
>>>
>>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1157
>>>
>>> -Otto
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