[theme-reviewers] Number of Free WordPress Themes

[Noumaan Yaqoob]

Basically a large number of Premium themes are also GPL. I can not
understand that if these are GPL licensed themes then why they are
behind the paywalls on their official websites and not included in
Wordpress Repositories. What more can be done to get more premium
themes listed here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/

I looked around and found interesting debates on the topic. It seems
to me that even if a license is not declared or declared anything
other than GPL, many people believe that themes are a derivative work
and automatically inherit GPL license.

Does that mean that premium themes are not paid themes instead they
are just offering support and other paid services.  Is there any
example that a premium theme author asked someone to stop using their
theme because it is not licensed GPL?

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Mario Peshev <mario at peshev.net> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Noumaan Yaqoob <y.noumaan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> @angelo just checked the requirements for theme review and it looks so
>> complicated. These requirements and guidelines do ensure quality I
>> suppose. People who are distributing their themes as Premium themes,
>> how do we know that they have a quality theme that follows similar
>> guidelines as Official Theme Repository?
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> Some of the markets have reviewers as well, recently I learned that they
> also use the Theme-Check plugin too. Others have less strict workflow or no
> review.
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>> So how people can be encouraged to develop free themes? How about
>> Wordpress starts giving some sort of stickers/buttons/banners to the
>> people who contribute free themes? A sticker that just says I am a
>> WordPress Theme Contributor or something like that?
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> Some encouragement of this type could probably help, however these themes
> are publicly available (including the search for themes in every WP admin)
> which is good enough if you care about portfolio or something.
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>> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Angelo Bertolli
>> <angelo.bertolli at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 12/12/2011 07:25 AM, Noumaan Yaqoob wrote:
>> >> Hi,
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>> >> I was looking around for data about the number of Free WordPress
>> >> themes uploaded to WordPress.org's Themes repository.
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>> >> I feel that the number of high quality Free WordPress themes is
>> >> decreasing and someone should do something about promoting GNU/GPL
>> >> licensed wordpress themes. I have nothing against Premium themes and I
>> >> think it is fine if people want to get paid for the effort they put
>> >> in. But I also believe that we should keep the community spirit of
>> >> free software alive.
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>> >> So any ideas on how GNU GPL licensed free WordPress themes should be
>> >> promoted and how we can encourage more people to contribute?
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>> > Part of the reason is probably because barrier to entry increases over
>> > time.  The time and skill needed to make a WP theme now is much
>> > different than it was for WP 1.5--and I think that makes a difference.
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