[theme-reviewers] Can my ThemeShop contain Paid Themes, which are not 100% GPL?

[Chip Bennett]

I should not try to respond to detail-specific questions on football day.
Either I misread the question, or mis-articulated the answer.

Commercial Theme shops that wish to be associated with WPORG, including
hosting Themes in the Theme directory, need to distribute 100% GPL Themes:

   - Distribute 100% GPL themes, including artwork and CSS.

http://wordpress.org/themes/commercial/

See also:
"Themes from sites that support non-GPL (or compatible) themes or violate
the WordPress community guidelines themes will not be approved."
http://wordpress.org/themes/about/

That's our current stance/interpretation of WPORG policy.


On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Ünsal Korkmaz <unsalkorkmaz at gmail.com>wrote:

> Wait a second. Is that means themeforest split licenses are acceptable?
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>
>> As long as the commercial products don't violate the GPL, and all
>> WordPress Theme/Plugin code conforms to WPORG policy, you should be fine.
>> Only code actually hosted on WPORG has to be 100% GPL-compatible, as
>> opposed to GPL-compatibly split-licensed.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I have come across a few themes on WPORG, who have pro versions of their
>>> themes which consist of components like Isotope, Revolution
>>> Slider(ThemeForest), etc.
>>>
>>> If I properly purchase the extended license for these plugins, can i use
>>> them? I Think I have read this somewhere in the guidelines, that it is not
>>> acceptable, But still I would like to get a confirmation.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rohit Tripathi
>>>
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