[theme-reviewers] Commercial, Themeforest and WordPress.Org

[Chip Bennett]

Hi Japh,

Yes, for as long as I can remember. To be honest, it's not something that
we spent a lot of time investigating, but before Envato introduced the 100%
GPL license option, if someone advertised their ThemeForest-hosted Themes
or Plugins from ThemeURI or AuthorURI, we would have to "not-approve" the
Theme, as a matter of WPORG policy.

(That's why I was one of the biggest fans of the move to offer a 100% GPL
license, so that the issue could go away.)


On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Japheth Thomson <japh at envato.com> wrote:

> Hi Chip,
>
> Did I read you correctly there? Are you saying that if someone is selling
> themes or plugins on ThemeForest or CodeCanyon, they must use the 100% GPL
> license, otherwise they are not allowed to also distribute other themes on
> WordPress.org?
>
> Has that been the rule for long?
>
> Cheers,
> Japh
>
>
>
> On 29 July 2013 05:33, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
>> If you host on wordpress.org, any Themes or Plugins that you sell on
>> ThemeForest must be distributed under the ThemeForest 100% GPL license.
>> Other than that, the usual commercial/up-sell Theme guidelines apply.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Ünsal Korkmaz <unsalkorkmaz at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I am preparing to release my first commercial child theme that using
>>> FirmaSite <http://wordpress.org/themes/firmasite> as parent theme.
>>> FirmaSite theme's support & information site is
>>> http://theme.firmasite.com
>>> I will put commercial child theme to ThemeForest as gpl theme. My
>>> questions are;
>>>
>>>    - Is there any restriction on this?
>>>    - Can i put a page on http://theme.firmasite.com about this
>>>    commercial child-theme?
>>>    - Can i put link to ThemeForest in commercial child-theme's page?
>>>
>>>
>>> ( Sorry if its unrelated to this mail list )
>>>
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