[theme-reviewers] Guidelines when revamping existing parent theme or framework

[Mario Peshev]

It's a theme by the same author -
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/nostalia26 . Has no sidebar, but it's
pretty much the same (index and single post view styling).

He has added credits to the readme.txt file, but it's not just copying, it
looks like cloning to me.

Mario Peshev
freelance software developer/trainer
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpeshev
http://peshev.net/blog



On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> While I don't do any theme reviews, but does the GPL allows that sort of
> thing? Also what the link to the other theme that you saw that look the
> same?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Mario Peshev <mario at peshev.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello reviewers,
>>
>> I think that an additional section in the Theme Review guidelines is
>> missing and this is the 'I have downloaded a theme/framework, changed the
>> style.css and images and resubmitted' section.
>>
>> I am inspecting ticket 4866 -
>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4866 - where the theme is based
>> on another existing theme (looking pretty much the same) and also built on a
>> starter theme. The theme has no specific functionality - the overall
>> functions.php file is like 15 lines of code. Also, text domain if toolbox
>> everywhere which is undoubtedly incorrect for a unique theme submission but
>> even more wrong where most of the code is copy-pasted.
>>
>> What is acceptable when submitting a theme which is almost entirely based
>> on another theme and has no uniqueness? This is not a child theme here (even
>> though a guide what is allowed for child themes is also a good idea) but an
>> existing theme with few tens of lines of code modified and submitted back to
>> the repo.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mario Peshev
>> freelance software developer/trainer
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpeshev
>> http://peshev.net/blog
>>
>>
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