[theme-reviewers] About My Theme "Infinity"

Fri Jun 29 14:00:26 UTC 2012

It's a trademark issue, not a copyright issue - and it's one that you would
need to take up directly with the Theme Shop in question, under advisement
of a lawyer. We do due diligence to help ensure that repository-hosted
Themes don't trample the copyright OR trademark of other repository-hosted
Themes, but can't and shouldn't try to police the entire Theme community.

Chip

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Chandra Maharzan <maharzan at gmail.com>wrote:

> To that, I have a theme called Cleanr in the repo, posted 3 years ago.
> Surprisingly, I just saw another Cleanr in one of the theme shops. I
> thought it was unique. :) Its hard to find a name nowadays. I guess
> theres not copyright or sort of things so not sure what to do.
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> > I'd also suggest to them that perhaps they should choose a name
> > unlikely for anybody else to put in the repository in the future. If
> > they had named their theme "Infinity by PressCrew" in the style.css,
> > for example, then they probably wouldn't be having this issue.
> >
> > Names should be unique, or namespaced, or prefixed, or something to
> > that effect. Avoid using generic names.
> >
> > -Otto
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Kirk Wight <kwight at kwight.ca> wrote:
> >> You've simply got a theme in the WP repo; there's nothing you have to
> do.
> >> The problem here really seems to be on PressCrew's end, and however it
> is
> >> they've implemented their theme updates.
> >>
> >> It's great that you're willing to help them, but if their email is
> implying
> >> that you have to do something about it, that would be wrong.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 29 June 2012 06:58, Mike Dave <designcoralblog at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks a lot Greg, i think it should work for PressCrew.
> >>> I am also waiting for some other opinions.
> >>>
> >>> Just Thinking:
> >>>
> >>> Should there be another check with theme-slug before checking the
> version
> >>> update in the WordPress core ?
> >>> Example: theme-slug AND author (or something else). It is just an
> idea, i
> >>> am not that it is acceptable or not.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Greg Priday <greg at siteorigin.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> That one line should have been
> >>>>
> >>>> unset($checked_data->response[$theme_base]);
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Greg Priday <greg at siteorigin.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>> > I'd suggest you tell PressCrew to include code that intercepts and
> >>>> > removes theme update information.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > ===
> >>>> > add_filter('pre_set_site_transient_update_themes',
> >>>> > 'infinity_remove_update');
> >>>> >
> >>>> > function infinity_remove_update($checked_data) {
> >>>> >   $theme_base = basename(get_template_directory());
> >>>> >   unset($checked_data->response[]);
> >>>> >   return $checked_data;
> >>>> > }
> >>>> > ===
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Somewhere in their functions.php should do the trick. They'd
> obviously
> >>>> > need to check that though.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Mike Dave <
> designcoralblog at gmail.com>
> >>>> > wrote:
> >>>> >> Hello Admin,
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> My Theme Infinity is available to public in WordPress Repo. I have
> >>>> >> submitted
> >>>> >> my theme by keeping the WordPress Guidelines in mind especially
> about
> >>>> >> name.
> >>>> >> I have searched the WordPress directory for the name "Infinity" and
> >>>> >> there
> >>>> >> was not any theme related to Infinity, so i decided to choose the
> >>>> >> name.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> Now i have received an email from PressCrew and a part of email is
> as
> >>>> >> follows,
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >>> Congratulations on your Infinity WordPress Theme, it's looks
> great.
> >>>> >>> Sadly
> >>>> >>> there's a big issue that has popped up for our WordPress project
> that
> >>>> >>> has
> >>>> >>> the same name.
> >>>> >>> Our Infinity is also a free WordPress Theme and has been released
> >>>> >>> about a
> >>>> >>> year ago (http://infinity.presscrew.com). We've build a great
> >>>> >>> community of
> >>>> >>> users of the past year, and it has become a valuable tool our
> users.
> >>>> >>> Currently our theme is in beta 3 and thousands of people have
> >>>> >>> downloaded it.
> >>>> >>> Why am I telling you this? Because today all our users got
> prompted
> >>>> >>> to
> >>>> >>> update to a new version of Infinity through the WordPress
> dashboard.
> >>>> >>> We were
> >>>> >>> extremely confused because we had not pushed out any update (since
> >>>> >>> the theme
> >>>> >>> is not yet in the repo!). It turns out that it's actually
> WordPress
> >>>> >>> thinking
> >>>> >>> that your version of Infinity is the theme that's being used by
> our
> >>>> >>> users.
> >>>> >>> In practice this means that several of our users have accidently
> >>>> >>> overwritten
> >>>> >>> our theme with yours. I don't have to tell you the implications
> this
> >>>> >>> has for
> >>>> >>> our users.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> So what you people suggest me about this issue.
> >>>> >> Waiting for response.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> Take Care
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> _______________________________________________
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> >>>> >>
> >>>> >
> >>>> >
> >>>> >
> >>>> > --
> >>>> > I make free WordPress themes
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> >>>> > http://twitter.com/SiteOrigin
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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