[theme-reviewers] theme-reviewers Digest, Vol 20, Issue 32
Nitin Reddy
k_nitin_r at yahoo.co.in
Thu Jan 19 10:25:56 UTC 2012
Hi!
Just wanted to say that I am in agreement with the decision to disapprove the theme because http://www.knowhowto.com.au/ doesn't seem to be related to the theme - it's an unrelated blog. It's not the author's home page and doesn't tell me anything about new developments to the theme, what the author is working on, or alternate themes that the author provides.
Latif, as a suggestion, if you could have a blog post tag about the particular theme you are submitting or a blog post category on WP themes, I would find that most helpful as a blogger using your theme or as somebody looking at a blog and wanting to know more about the theme it is using from the footer. You can also use the footer link to take credit for the theme by pointing to your home page so people wanting some work done can contact you through your website for freelance work or look at your portfolio. If I see footer links for anything unrelevant, I would assume that the blog was hacked and the blog owner didn't do a good job of cleaning up after the hack. I hope this helps you understand how the WordPress community feels about the issue and why we insist on the use of relevant links.
Regards,
Nitin
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Estimated time frame for theme review (Edward Caissie)
2. WordPress Theme Stores Violating GPL (Emil Uzelac)
3. Re: WordPress Theme Stores Violating GPL
(Rankin, Matthew W. (Student))
4. Re: WordPress Theme Stores Violating GPL (Emil Uzelac)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:29:49 -0500
From: Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Estimated time frame for theme review
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Not that I am weighing in on this matter, but I am curious why this URI:
http://www.elegantthemes.com/ is not being used as the Author URI as it is
what is being displayed on the current landing page for the Author URI.
(forgive any mojojo ... not enough coffee yet)
Cais.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
> Correct, however this http://knowhowto.com.au<http://knowhowto.com.au/themeportrait/> does.
> Domain name plays huge roll in Author/Theme URL and you can read that in
> credit link guides I posted in first not-approved version, as well as bit
> earlier via list as well. Domains such as this one is not accepted in any
> form or a shape. Good domain usage is either your personal blog/site i.e.
> http://themeportrait.wordpress.com or even http://themeportrait.com and
> that's completely up to you.
>
> Thanks,
> Emil
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Chandra Maharzan <maharzan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> http://knowhowto.com.au/themeportrait/ doesn't tell anything aout the
>> author.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Rashed Latif <rashed.latif at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Emil
>> >
>> > Please clarify my confusion.
>> > I have used the following to links in my style.css
>> >
>> > Theme URI:
>> >
>> http://www.knowhowto.com.au/themeportrait/themeportrait-magazine-free-magazine-style-theme-for-wordpress/
>> > Author URI: http://www.knowhowto.com.au/themeportrait
>> >
>> > Theme URI links to the page related to the theme itself and author URI
>> links
>> > to the site related to the developer. And from my understanding that
>> meets
>> > the requirement as per the link u provided. I just cant understand how
>> come
>> > its an invalid URL when i click on those link it goes to the related
>> pages.
>> > Please clarify.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Rashed Latif
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's going to be rejected
>> again I
>> >> am afraid. http://www.knowhowto.com.au is not valid URL, sorry!
>> >> See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Credit_Links
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Emil
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Rashed Latif <rashed.latif at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi
>> >>>
>> >>> I have submitted my theme about 6 days ago. Ticket number: 6198. I am
>> >>> just wondering whats the average time to review a theme. The fist
>> version of
>> >>> this theme which was rejected was reviewed in 1 day but for this its
>> taking
>> >>> longer time.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks in advance.
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Rashed Latif
>> >>>
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>> > --
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:48:02 -0600
From: Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com>
Subject: [theme-reviewers] WordPress Theme Stores Violating GPL
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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.
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Emil
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:12:41 +0000
From: "Rankin, Matthew W. (Student)" <mrankin at my.ccsu.edu>
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] WordPress Theme Stores Violating GPL
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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.
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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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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:21:11 -0600
From: Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com>
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] WordPress Theme Stores Violating GPL
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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.
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> *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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