[theme-reviewers] Question about guidelines - Trademark

[Edward Caissie]

I would agree, too ... proper attribution should cover most everything.


Cais.


On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> I think you should be okay. As far as I can tell, phpBB itself is licensed
> under GPL, and so are its Themes. I can't find the default Theme
> specifically, but the ones I checked here are GPL:
> http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/styles-2/?from=submenu
>
> Just be sure to note the original copyright attribution in style.css, and
> I think you're fine.
>
> Chip
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a question about the quote below:
>>
>> "Trademark
>>
>>    Themes MUST NOT clone the design of past or present web site.
>> Themes that clone non-website designs will be considered on a
>> case-by-case basis."
>>
>> My theme, propress is a theme based on the default theme used in phpBB
>> along with a page in the admin area to allow people to set it so that
>> it look the same as their phpBB based forum.
>>
>> Would I be breaking the rules regarding this?
>>
>> Thanks
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