[theme-reviewers] Submitting themes based on existing themes, about child themes

[Chip Bennett]

What Doug said, and to be more specific: only the owner of a Theme should
ever submit that Theme to be included in the Theme directory, whether that
Theme is free or commercial. Not only will such a submission be rejected,
anyone found to be submitting Themes belonging to others runs a very high
risk of being banned outright.


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com> wrote:

> It will be rejected.
>
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Regarding #5
> > Can someone buy a commercial theme with GPL license from a themeshop and
> > submit it here?
> > Will it be considered a clone of existing theme and rejected as such?
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 1-5) Child Themes must use a currently approved (i.e. currently listed
> in
> >> the official Theme directory) Theme as a template, and must demonstrate
> >> significant design/functionality distinction from the Parent Theme.
> >>
> >> 6) Proper copyright/license attribution for a Child Theme would be,
> e.g.,
> >> as follows:
> >>
> >> Fred WordPress Theme, copyright 2013 Fred Rogers
> >> Fred is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.0
> >>
> >> Fred WordPress Theme is a derivative of Twenty Twelve, copyright 2012
> The
> >> WordPress Team
> >> Twenty Twelve is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL
> >>
> >>
> >> The critical elements: Theme name, copyright, distribution terms;
> >> derivative work declaration, original work copyright, original work
> >> distribution terms.
> >>
> >> 7) All Themes in the directory are GPL-compatible, so yes
> >>
> >> B1) Yes, Child Themes are accepted in the Theme directory now
> >>
> >> B2) See answer to 1-5, above
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:28 PM, kurachababy kurachababy
> >> <kurachababy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi, I have some questions about submitting the themes to the WP theme
> >>> directory. I see some themes are based on other themes, for example
> Twenty
> >>> Eleven.
> >>>
> >>> ### A) So my questions for themes and frameworks are:
> >>>
> >>> 1. Since all theme submitted are GPL, can I create a new design based
> on
> >>> any existing themes?
> >>>
> >>> 2. Are there any different rules for starter themes, framework, or
> >>> standalone parent theme that can be based on?
> >>>
> >>> 3. Does it matter if the theme is by Automattic or other authors?
> >>>
> >>> 4. What about commercial frameworks that are GPL like Genesis,
> >>> WooFramework? Are they treated same like any other free GPL frameworks?
> >>>
> >>> 5. What about commercial themes that are GPL?
> >>>
> >>> 6. If I can indeed create theme based on another framework or theme,
> how
> >>> do I enter the attribution info for the original author in the
> style.css
> >>> header? Do I just need to mention it in the description? Because I see
> the
> >>> Author and Author URI wont' fit here, correct? Or do I have to add
> credits
> >>> in the readme.txt file?
> >>>
> >>> 7. About the WP-Admin backend, I see some authors add donation buttons,
> >>> banner advertisements, and other link information. Is it okay to change
> >>> them?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ### B) I saw a child theme for the first time in the WP theme directory
> >>> yesterday, as I know child themes weren't allowed in the past. So my
> >>> questions are:
> >>>
> >>> 1. Are child themes allowed now?
> >>>
> >>> 2. If it's allowed, do they have to be based on certain themes or it's
> >>> okay to be based on any themes in the directory?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thank you!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> John Lee
> >>>
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