[theme-reviewers] Is it ok that a theme is just a re-write of an existing theme?

[Chip Bennett]

To elaborate, the FrogsThemes license expressly prohibits redistribution.

You may modify your theme to suit your project, but you are not allowed to
redistribute, sell or otherwise share the modified theme. All of the CSS,
PHP. HTML and Javascript comes under the original FrogsThemes.com copyright.


Thus, if a Theme is using any FrogsThemes code, it should be rejected, due
to license incompatibility.

Chip

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> FolioGrid is developed by FrogsThemes, whose Theme licenses are NOT
> GPL-compatible:
> http://www.frogsthemes.com/terms-and-conditions/
>
> Chip
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Cristopher Ocana <crissoca at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello guys,
>> I'm working on my first ticket #3347 (I'm sorry if this is a newbie
>> question) and the first two things i noticed are that this theme is a
>> modification of a couple of existing themes, the first one is DIGWP's
>> "Blank" theme which the author recognize it on the styles.css, but on
>> the functions.php it uses a bunch of functions copied from "foliogrid"
>> (a paid theme) without giving credit, which bring me to my question,
>> is this valid to us?
>>
>> Hope some of you guys can help me out or point me to the right answer for
>> this.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> ------------
>> Cristopher Ocaña . WordPress Junkie
>> //// web development + design
>> //// http://www.plan-zero.org
>> //// cris at plan-zero.org
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