[theme-reviewers] Question about Theme Update Release

[Edward Caissie]

Although it may not be "fair" or you simply do not like what the "end-user"
has done with your theme, it all boils down to what license you released
your theme under. Generally the license will provide what is "allowable".
It may not provide you a great deal of comfort or a resolution you like but
the license are the terms you set forth and agreed to ... all you can
really hope for is your end-users honor the license and comply with its
terms.

Given you are releasing your theme to a "free" repository with one of the
underlying tenets being the themes are there to (ab)use and learn from it
should not come as a surprise someone may make changes that you will not
agree with. As to this specific example of the "theme by" being changed ...
yeah, it sux, but there is not a lot you can reasonably do about it as
others have noted; but, if this person tried to simply submit your theme
(as you noted the changes)  back to the repository I would expect the
reviewer to immediate resolve it as "non-approved".


Cais.


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Thiago Senna <trsenna at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> for me his changes is perfectly fine. If I decide to create a child theme
> of your theme and override the footer.php saying that the theme is mine,
> would be strange If any one say that I'm wrong, 'cause the child-theme is
> really mine and the parent is yours.
>
> I know that this is not the case, but I think this is not something that
> you should worry about. In my opinion the problem is when somebody
> redistribute the theme with this kind of changes.
>
>
> Bye,
> Thiago
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Chandra Maharzan <maharzan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Yep. Don't worry too much about it. Once back in 2009, I was searching
>> and reporting pirated copies of my premium themes hosts and removing
>> them but later noticed it just too too much time and energy. Instead,
>> I learnt to market my themes in such a way that all users are diverted
>> to my site, providing updates, bug fixes, 24/7 support were some of
>> the main points users look for. You might want to concentrate on that
>> front. Sure it does hurt when your work is being distributed like
>> that.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Yeah, you're going to stress yourself out worrying about what any of the
>> > inevitable hundreds of thousands of people are going to be doing with
>> your
>> > themes if you give it too much thought.
>> >
>> > You can only hope people will like your themes. As far as receiving
>> > attribution, you just have to stop caring. You'll have plenty of good
>> karma
>> > (not in the superstitious sense), in a common sense, do what's right and
>> > you'll be fine kind of way.
>> >
>> >
>> > Bryan Phillip Hadaway
>> >
>> >
>> > Web & Graphic Designer
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