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

[Josh Pollock]

I never got a response to my query about whether or not this person's
up-sell themes are GPL compatible. They have 10 or so other themes in the
queue. Should anything be done about this?


On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK. I will ask the developer via a in ticket comment to clarify and see
> what happens. If it appears to be an issue I will report back.
>
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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