[theme-reviewers] Licensing of photos used in themes

[Mario Peshev]

I wonder what's the percentage of submitted themes with images downloaded
from the Internet. I think that many themes do use random images for design.

Mario Peshev
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On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>> *----*
>> *Emil Uzelac* | ThemeID | T: 224-444-0006 | Twitter: @EmilUzelac | E:
>> emil at themeid.com | http://themeid.com
>> Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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