[theme-reviewers] Number of Free WordPress Themes

Tue Dec 13 12:50:45 UTC 2011

Most markets have dual license - PHP/WP code is GPL, images/css/html on the
other hand is copyrighted.

And some themes are not submitted in commercial market due to some
financial reasons :)

Basically it's up to the developer/theme. Some submit lite version and sell
premium + support in addition.

Mario Peshev
Training and Consulting Services @ DevriX
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpeshev
http://devrix.com
http://peshev.net/blog

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> Commercial Themes are not listed in the repository, quite simply because
> the developers of those Themes do not submit them, and because if someone
> else did, we would not accept such a submission from someone other than the
> developer. (Themes submitted to the repository are expected to be the
> submitter's own work.)
>
> The commercial Themes listing on WPORG is outside of the area of control
> of the Theme Review Team. We really have nothing to do with that listing.
>
> Beyond that, this mail list would not benefit from delving too deeply into
> your other questions regarding free versus commercial Themes, or into
> matters of GPL compliance/derivative works. Themes submitted for inclusion
> in the Theme repository are required to be 100% GPL (or compatible). Any
> commentary beyond that requirement is off-topic for this mail list. There
> are plenty of other venues for exploring that rabbit hole. :)
>
> Chip
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Noumaan Yaqoob <y.noumaan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Noumaan Yaqoob <y.noumaan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> @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?
>> >
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 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?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 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,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I was looking around for data about the number of Free WordPress
>> >> >> themes uploaded to WordPress.org's Themes repository.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> 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.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> So any ideas on how GNU GPL licensed free WordPress themes should be
>> >> >> promoted and how we can encourage more people to contribute?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > 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.
>> >> > _______________________________________________
>> >> > theme-reviewers mailing list
>> >> > theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> >> > http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>> >> _______________________________________________
>> >> theme-reviewers mailing list
>> >> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> >> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Mario Peshev
>> > Training and Consulting Services @ DevriX
>> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpeshev
>> > http://devrix.com
>> > http://peshev.net/blog
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > theme-reviewers mailing list
>> > theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> > http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>> >
>> _______________________________________________
>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> theme-reviewers mailing list
> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/attachments/20111213/4cec14f2/attachment-0001.htm>