[theme-reviewers] Theme Copy

[Sakin Shrestha]

Yes Otto, I wanted that only. I wanted reviewer attention to the author
that at least that they give proper copyright attribution to the original
work.
-Sakin

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Sakin Shrestha <info at catchinternet.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello Theme Reviewer and Admins,
>>
>> I would like to bring to your notice that my themes are being copied to
>> an extreme and even the new theme company made the framework on the basis
>> of my theme.
>>
>> You can take a look at my themes
>> Simple Catch: http://wordpress.org/themes/catch-everest
>> Catch Everest: http://wordpress.org/themes/catch-everest
>>
>> Where I have my own Theme Options panel and functions. Then Following
>> theme copied by theme to 80% of coding.
>> Clean Retina: http://wordpress.org/themes/clean-retina
>> Attitude: http://wordpress.org/themes/attitude
>>
>>
> Sakin: You should respond to the latest review tickets for the Clean
> Retina and Attitude themes, and point out that large portions of the themes
> come from your original versions. You should then ask that they add
> attribution in some form to the readme or the stylesheet, to the effect of
> "Based on the Simple Catch theme by Catch Themes".
>
> Asking for proper attribution is the way to proceed forward in such cases.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
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