[theme-reviewers] Licensing of photos used in themes

[Edward Caissie]

The author should be contacted and politely notified their themes in the
repository require updating due to a copyright issue with the Theme URL
(not to mention any other potential issues updating to current standards
requires).
After a fair amount of time for a response, we can continue with further
actions as required. For example, if they do not respond in 2-3 days (?)
their themes go into suspension for Copyright issues ... otherwise we will
have to see what the author says.

Hopefully they will choose to update all of their themes, then these themes
will fall under the standard review process and any issues of note, such as
potential image issues, can be addressed.


Cais.


On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:

> That's not the only issue: ThemeURL: http://tsegwordpressthemes.com is in
> violation of http://wordpress.org/about/domains/ as well as all the rest
> from the same author http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/profile/tsegseo@Otto should someone get in touch with them or this qualifies for
> suspension? (well I know that it does, however they have few Themes
> in repository)
>
> Emil
>
>
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>
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Kirk Wight <kwight at kwight.ca> wrote:
>
>> I understand licenses for binary assets such as images, fonts and icons
>> are to be explicitly listed in the readme.txt.
>>
>> There's also a tool called TinEye <http://www.tineye.com/> that can be
>> used to find other uses online of an image; it's not perfect, but it can be
>> useful for reviewers (it will show a lot of images that are registered in
>> online stock libraries, for example).
>>
>>
>> On 6 December 2011 23:35, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
>>
>>> On 7 December 2011 15:12, Angelo Bertolli <angelo.bertolli at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Ian Stewart wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I was traipsing through the theme directory theme by theme as I am
>>> >> sometimes wont to do and happened upon this theme with a beautiful
>>> header
>>> >> image.
>>> >>
>>> >> http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/silent-film
>>> >>
>>> >> It looked like a stock photo to me and made me wonder if the original
>>> >> license of the stock photo (if it is one) allowed it to be made free
>>> and if
>>> >> that's something being checked on in theme reviews (and in this theme
>>> in
>>> >> particular).
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > It is my understanding that photos are not required to be put under
>>> the GPL,
>>> > as they are not themselves derivative works.
>>> >
>>> > This doesn't mean that such a photo is licensed to be distributed
>>> though...
>>>
>>> Correct, Some people will subscribe to the notion that only the Theme
>>> PHP code is required to be GPL - this is a accepted licensing opinion
>>> from what I'm aware of - Lets not go into this battle here however, as
>>> it's a moot point:
>>>
>>> Submission to the WordPress.org Themes repository however has a much
>>> stricter licensing arrangement, ALL of the theme - PHP, JS, CSS, Flash
>>> Objects, Fonts, Icons, and most importantly in this case Images, MUST
>>> be GPL licensed, or under a GPL-compatible license.
>>> This is covered under the Theme Review guidelines:
>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Licensing
>>>
>>> This allows for WordPress.org org to be a repository of Plugins and
>>> Themes which are 100% GPL'd, with Zero restrictions placed on usage.
>>> By all means, You should be able to take images from any theme on
>>> WordPress.org and use it in a GPL-compliant manner without license
>>> issues.
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