[theme-reviewers] GPL Screenshots

[Emil Uzelac]

We already have that in place. GPL applies to all parts of the Theme :-)
On Nov 12, 2013 11:28 PM, "Srikanth Koneru" <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This comes up during a lot of reviews, lets add it to rules page.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>
>> Please see:
>> http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2013-November/016319.html
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>
>>> Minions are copyright of Universal Pictures.
>>>
>>> Screenshot is part of the theme, theme is hosted at WordPress, therefore
>>> it should follow
>>> the proper licensing, would you agree?
>>>
>>> And admin did ask you to replace the image, wasn't that not enough? :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was asked to update my screenshots for a theme because, a part of the
>>>> screenshot contained an image(post with featured image) from a movie.
>>>> Obviously, the movie is copyrighted to someone else, but I am not
>>>> distributing the poster with the theme. Secondly, I am not violating any
>>>> copyrights too. Screenshots are just demonstrations of a site using my
>>>> theme. What can be a better screenshot than the screenshot of a real site
>>>> actually using the theme?
>>>>
>>>> Secondly, if the images shown in the screenshots itself have to be
>>>> under GPL then there can be many problems with a large amount of themes.
>>>> None of the themes, declare licenses for the images/site used to create the
>>>> screenshot. I bet most of them are not GPL. But, it doesn't matter we are
>>>> not distributing the images. It only makes the theme looks good. Moreover,
>>>> we are not using paid or pirated images. Also, the images used to build the
>>>> screenshot are not even Default images in the theme, that they would show
>>>> up in theme preview.
>>>>
>>>> Thirdly, even the components of the Theme Unit test might cause a
>>>> conflict with the screenshot being GPL. For e.g. the *Post Format
>>>> Test: Video*(in theme unit test)*, *if the screenshot contains that
>>>> particular post, then the video would appear in it. The image of the
>>>> Video/or the Thumbnail of the video is not under GPL. So, isn't that a
>>>> problem?
>>>>
>>>> All I want to say is that, we are all using fully GPL compatible
>>>> resources in our themes. I think, there shouldn't be such strictness on the
>>>> themes. Also, I would completely respect the decision taken by theme admins
>>>> on this. But, I atleast request you to understand the genuinity of the
>>>> cause I bring to you.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Rohit Tripathi
>>>>
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