[theme-reviewers] Envato’s License Changes For The Worse

[Chip Bennett]

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On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Daniel Tara <contact at onedesigns.com>wrote:

> In the many years in which I have been involved with the software
> development and open source community I have never seen such utter
> disrespect towards the community and ignorance towards the legal
> requirements of open source licenses and such gibberish and nonsense
> blabbered about it. Just who exactly do Envato think they to dictate a
> seller's licensing options? Only the copyright owner has the right to
> decide which licese their product uses. By accepting Envato's new licensing
> conditions, they are essentially accepting that Envato owns their products.
> I don't care that officially the authors are still the legal owners, just
> take a look at the facts: Envato dictates prices, sales commissions and
> licensing terms. They're not an open and free marketplace, they're an
> obese, rigid, dictatorial, monopolist, counter-competitive and anti
> trusting corporation that has only one aim: profit and uses only one
> weapon: market dominance. A huge boycott should be played on them and if
> there are authors who really care out there they will react to it.
>
> Rant over.
> Daniel
>
> On Jan 25, 2013, at 3:19 AM, Emil Uzelac wrote:
>
> all righty good enough for me :)
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>
>> Given that, under current policy, we wouldn't approve an upsell Theme for
>> which the commercial version was hosted on ThemeForest: no, it doesn't
>> really change anything.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>
>>> it does if the Pro version of the Theme is linked to TF right?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Since we already currently do not accept Themes from developers who
>>>> sell on ThemeForest, I would only extend the current WPF-WordCamp-Envato
>>>> discussion so far as to say that if/when Envato allows their developers to
>>>> choose a 100% GPL-compatible license for their Themes, then I believe that
>>>> any Theme developers who choose to use such a license would be welcome to
>>>> submit Themes for inclusion in the wp.org Theme directory.
>>>>
>>>> Otherwise, it really doesn't impact the Theme directory or the Theme
>>>> Review Team, I think.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> FYI: http://themeshaper.com/2013/01/24/envato-license/
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. Any questions, please post them on ThemeShaper instead.
>>>>> I am just a messenger.
>>>>>
>>>>> Emil
>>>>>
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