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

Mon May 27 01:48:08 UTC 2013

Here's the ticket http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12368 . They left
the links in the last comment work.

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Daniel <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's also taking me to wop.ro as well. Adding to that, the site is
> being blocked here as well.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > weird, i am getting wop.ro even after using a proxy.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Works for me at: http://mythem.es/regular-license
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> i am being redirected to wop.ro when i click the link, does that
> happen
> >>> to you too?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I got an in-ticket response to this issue today. Their up-sell themes,
> >>>> which have free versions currently in the theme directory, carry this
> very
> >>>> not gpl-compatible license: http://mythem.es/regular-license
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Done.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 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. 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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