[theme-reviewers] How are derivative works identified?

[Emil Uzelac]

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I also think we should leave it up to authors whether or not they want to
> distribute their theme as a child theme. If I tweaked 1% of the markup or
> functionality in every template file in Twenty Eleven and made a new
> stylesheet that looking dramatically different I wouldn't want that to be
> distributed as a child theme but it sounds like this would still count as a
> derivative theme.

I am thinking that Child Theme guidelines should be similar if not the same
as Parent Themes, this way all parties will be happy :)


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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Ian Stewart <ian at iandanielstewart.com>wrote:

> On 2011-10-04, at 2:33 PM, Emil Uzelac wrote:
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> > Right but that does not count because you are the original developer, all
> Themes are yours. Changing the colors, pushing things around while keeping
> the same code, sure why not, when we start accepting Child Themes :)
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> I'm talking about any theme author using 99% of the code from the default
> theme in their new theme. I think that'd be great.
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> I also think we should leave it up to authors whether or not they want to
> distribute their theme as a child theme. If I tweaked 1% of the markup or
> functionality in every template file in Twenty Eleven and made a new
> stylesheet that looking dramatically different I wouldn't want that to be
> distributed as a child theme but it sounds like this would still count as a
> derivative theme.
>
> On 2011-10-04, at 2:35 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
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> > 1) To preserve rightful copyright (and license freedoms)
> > 2) To ensure that the Repository does not become flooded with what amount
> to different "skins" of the same Theme
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> I think it'd be great if the repository was flooded with beautiful skins of
> forked and tweaked default themes that are still largely derivative
> code-wise. I also think it'd be horrible if the repo was flooded with
> slightly re-colored default themes but I think there's a difference between
> the two.
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> > 3) To ensure code is used purposefully, rather than merely copy-pasta.
> Code that is copied just because it was "there" in the original Theme is
> less likely to be understood, and therefore more likely to be implemented
> incorrectly (or needlessly), and also more likely to become a risk to
> security or robustness of the Theme.
>
> What if you liked most of the code in the default theme? I like most of the
> code in the default theme. Toolbox is largely derivative of the code in
> Twenties Ten and Eleven. As are most of the recent Automattic themes.
>
> Ian
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