[theme-reviewers] Clarification on non-GPL themes on Author/ThemeURI

[Chip Bennett]

It does change things, but only technically. In order to have a Theme
hosted in the directory, a developer must release *all* Themes under a
GPL-compatible license. Therefore, all commercial Themes, whether an
up-sell version of the directory-hosted Theme, or a separate Theme
entirely, must be GPL-compatible. Thus, the developer must still list the
license for all Themes, free and/or commercial.


On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com> wrote:

> To clarify, the theme I am reviewing only has a free, GPL2 licensed,
> version. The up-sell theme I linked to, I got to by following a link int he
> menu of the developers theme. I do not know if that changes things as far
> as this theme goes.
>
> I just checked and the theme I just linked to is in the queue.
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12076
>
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I would read that as more the "paid" version is more robust or not "a
>> simplified" version, but it still does not explicitly address the potential
>> for the "paid" version to be licensed in some other manner than
>> GPL-compatible (there was no obvious disclosure that I could find).
>>
>> Ask the author for clarification and take them at their word ... the paid
>> versions should also be GPL-compatible and if they are not then the "free"
>> version should be addressed appropriately.
>>
>> Edward Caissie
>> aka Cais.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> A theme I am reviewing has several themes for sale on the page linked
>>> via author/theme URI, as well as the credit links in the footer and theme
>>> options, that seem to not be GPL licensed. For example:
>>> http://mythem.es/my-way
>>>
>>> The full version fo the theme is for sale on this page and their is a
>>> link to a free version of this theme. The free version link is prefaced
>>> with this text "You can download free version of this item with GPL 2
>>> license<http://test.mythem.es/beta/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/license.zip>.
>>> This package is a simplified version." This implies that the paid
>>> version is not GPL, but I can't be sure. If they are selling nonGPL themes
>>> on this page is that an issue, and if so how should I confirm they really
>>> are non GPL?
>>>
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