[theme-reviewers] theme-reviewers Digest, Vol 20, Issue 32

Thu Jan 19 10:42:09 UTC 2012

Why don't you just get your own domain or create one at wordpress.com?
Make things simple I would say.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Nitin Reddy <k_nitin_r at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> 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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>   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
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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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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> 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?
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> 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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> Thanks,
> 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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> [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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> 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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