[theme-reviewers] Question about guidelines - Trademark

[Emil Uzelac]

it's safe to say that anything GPL or GPL-Compatible should be accepted
with proper attribution as Cais and Chip noted above.

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On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> I would agree, too ... proper attribution should cover most everything.
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> Cais.
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> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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