[theme-reviewers] Possible theme copycat

[Chip Bennett]

I'm not aaying that reviewers should actively look for it (that's not
practical, since it's nearly impossible for any one person to be familiar
with the code of every Theme); but when found it will need to be dealt with
appropriately.
On Nov 9, 2013 5:16 PM, "Bryan Hadaway" <bhadaway at gmail.com> wrote:

> *@Chip*
>
> Even in that specific way is that something that reviewers should be
> checking for?
>
> It just seems like it would be greatly tedious, perhaps impossible to
> check for such things. Seems like there should only be cause for
> "investigation" when someone actually makes a complaint, otherwise it's
> outside the scope of a reviewer's checks.
>
> And also, what about us theme developers who don't have a problem with how
> someone uses our works? I give permission and encourage users to take
> BlankSlate and completely build their own theme, strip it down, swap out
> all the prefixes and slugs for their own and even copyright their own
> derived works as their own unique (and uniquely named) theme without being
> slaves to paying some sort of attribution, essentially weakening their
> theme's professional appearance, especially for those who want to build
> their own pro themes to sell.
>
> This is important to me because the nature of starter themes are meant for
> this purpose. The only thing I would not like is if someone didn't change
> the theme name and claimed ownership or portrayed themselves as the company
> who created the original theme, unchanged.
>
> A quick analogy would be if I owned ABC Lumber specializing in woods for
> framing a house, my customers would be free to build their own custom homes
> with having to put a plaque on their house saying "This House Made Possible
> by ABC Lumber".
>
> Not that everyone or even most people have to release their theme that
> way, but am I allowed to extend the rights of use like that for my users?
>
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