[theme-reviewers] Author website advertises themeforest

[Edward Caissie]

I would be fine with a generic banners, or advertising such as Google
AdSense or similar. I would even be fine with other advertising provided it
is not the sole purpose of the "landing" page of the URI, but given the
guidelines in general for the URI landing pages, those would likely not be
accepted to begin with but also not necessarily for specific ads.

Asking a reviewer to follow every link on the landing page to yet another
site is not realistic ... a review of the "main" pages on the same domain
as the landing page should be sufficient to find any issues that may be
considered too far into the grey or to show cause for other unacceptable
issues.

Edward Caissie
aka Cais.


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> ...which is fine for this specific case, but I'm more interested in what
> precedent we set for other reviews.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Kirk Wight <kwight at kwight.ca> wrote:
>
>> The submitter has thrown up a new page at that URL with nothing but their
>> wp.org profile: http://thememotive.com/
>>
>> On 13 February 2013 11:53, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I could get overruled if I'm misinterpreting here, but it is, IMHO, a
>>> bridge too far to ask Theme Reviewers to evaluate all advertising on links
>>> used as Theme URI/Author URI. So, it depends on the specific advertisement
>>> in question.
>>>
>>> There's a difference between selling or promoting non-GPL Themes, and a
>>> generic advertising banner. Linking to one's own Themes for sale, or an
>>> affiliate link to non-GPL Themes? Sure. That's reasonable to ask the
>>> developer to remove.
>>>
>>> But a generic banner ad?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Chandra Maharzan <maharzan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I guess you have to note to remove that to the author.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Srini <srinig112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Here's a ticket I'm reviewing:
>>>>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11123
>>>>>
>>>>> The author URI has a themeforest banner ad. As far as I know this is a
>>>>> violation of theme requirements as themeforest distributes themes that are
>>>>> not fully GPL licensed, and I'm not sure how to proceed. Clarification on
>>>>> this appreciated.
>>>>>
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