[theme-reviewers] WordPress Theme Stores Violating GPL

[Emil Uzelac]

TF most likely followed WP.org guides:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Licensing
Themes are *required* to be 100% GPL-licensed, or use a GPL-compatible
license<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses/>.
This includes all PHP, HTML, CSS, images, fonts, icons, and everything
else. *All* of the theme must be GPL-Compatible.


On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Rankin, Matthew W. (Student) <
mrankin at my.ccsu.edu> wrote:

>  I like the approach taken by ThemeForest. Any PHP code which contains
> WordPress functionality must be released under the GPL, but the
> CSS/HTML/Javascript and images used in the theme are copyrighted by the
> theme author. That being said, I don't think most premium theme stores are
> in violation of the GPL.
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org [
> theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org] on behalf of Emil Uzelac [
> emil at themeid.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:48 PM
> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> *Subject:* [theme-reviewers] WordPress Theme Stores Violating GPL
>
>   This afternoon I came across this post
> http://www.wpmods.com/wordpress-theme-stores-violating-gpl/ what do you
> guys thing?
>
>  P.S. Note that this is not site-specific issue, we need a general
> opinion only, try to isolate sites listed in the post.
>
>  Thanks,
> Emil
>
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