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

[Chip Bennett]

Add a comment to the ticket, and change the resolution to "not-approved".

I'll take care of the Themes already in Extend.


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I closed all of their themes in the queue. What about approved themes?
>
> For instance this one:
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7877
> It was just approved yesterday so it is probably not live yet.
>
> They have 9 themes in the repository, all of which I just rejected an
> update to, except the one who's ticket I mentioned above. This is there
> profile:
> http://profiles.wordpress.org/mythemes/
>
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>
>> Feel free to close them all. Just reference/link the comment in the first
>> ticket, so any potential subsequent reviewers can follow the issue.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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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