[theme-reviewers] Envato to allow 100% GPL themes

[Edward Caissie]

To be honest, I am not familiar with the working of ThemeForest so I really
do not have any "hard" example(s) ... it's more of a gut check.

There really is not a lot of difference, per se, with how "advertising"
would/could/should be addressed except that for the most part I would
expect Theme authors to have a natural inclination to "upsell" all of their
ThemeForest hosted themes in general. I am just suggesting the
"advertising" be limited to the theme relevant to the one submitted for
inclusion in the WordPress repository. This essentially makes it no
different than how current "upsell" type themes are being handled in Extend.

Edward Caissie
aka Cais.


On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> I don't think ThemeForest advertising should be treated any differently
> from any other allowable advertising on ThemeURI/AuthorURI; likewise with
> Upsell requirements.
>
> Is there anything in particular that you're concerned about, that we would
> want to address via the Guidelines?
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> As much as I hate to write it, this still may require additional
>> guidelines for reviewers to follow-up on ... perhaps an expansion of the
>> "up-sell" guidelines to cover the inclusion of ThemeForest as it still does
>> hold a unique position over the "premium" theme groups that already have
>> "free" themes on the repository.
>>
>> Maybe something along the lines of only "advertising" the ThemeForest
>> premium version of the theme only?
>> Unfortunately the term "advertising" still makes me feel like I'm already
>> sliding down a slippery slope.
>>
>> Edward Caissie
>> aka Cais.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>
>>> I'm going to go ahead and say that, once the 100% GPL license is
>>> available, Theme developers who use that license option for all their
>>> ThemeForest-hosted Themes/Plugins would be welcome to advertise those
>>> ThemeForest-hosted Themes/Plugins.
>>>
>>> (Consider that an official statement, unless/until it is superseded by
>>> someone above the pay grade of the WPTRT.)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Justin Tadlock <
>>> justin at justintadlock.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  I think it'd be acceptable.  Would we need to get a definitive OK from
>>>> Matt on this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2/28/2013 9:12 PM, Daniel Tara wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Big thumbs up for their decision, here's the announcement:
>>>>
>>>>  http://notes.envato.com/news/survey-results-about-gpl-opt-in-choice/
>>>>
>>>>  Question is, does this change our policy towards ThemeForest? Will
>>>> authors now be able to sell and promote themes that are 100% GPL and sold
>>>> on TF?
>>>>
>>>>  Daniel
>>>>
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