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

[Daniel Tara]

I have observed 2 ways of doing it: the first is the traditional advertising of the theme with just a picture and an affiliate link, the second is setting up actual landing pages with all sorts of info regarding theme features, documentation and support and using TF as a mere third party payment service. I personally don't see anything different with any of the methods than how other theme market places are doing currently.

On a side note, if you take any premium theme that's more than a month old, write its name in Google and append the word "nulled" to it, you'll find it for free on some shady dubious site. Let's say you find somebody using one of your non-GPL themes without purchasing it. What are you going to do, open a lawsuit for a $45 product? Set a precedent or give an example? Seriously, all this blabber about protecting copyrights through licensing is stupid, I'm surprised anyone buys it.

Daniel

On Mar 1, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Edward Caissie wrote:

> 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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