[theme-reviewers] Providing commercial non-GPL themes

Ünsal Korkmaz unsalkorkmaz at gmail.com
Tue Sep 3 10:57:22 UTC 2013


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> All themes by you (since you have a theme in directory) should be gpl, had
> my themes suspended once because upsell versions had non-gpl components and
> so were not full gpl.
>
>
I think i made it clear that there is no upsell version of theme or there
is no freemium.
Basically my GPL theme is not related to commercial theme. Commerical theme
is just using GPL theme as core.




>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Ünsal Korkmaz <unsalkorkmaz at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>    - Commercial versions of free Themes (i.e. “freemium” or “up-sell”
>>    Themes) are *required* to be released under GPL-compatible licenses
>>
>> I want to clarify a thing before it becomes a trouble.
>> Theme: FirmaSite <http://wordpress.org/themes/firmasite>
>> Theme Uri: http://theme.firmasite.com/gpl/
>>
>> I am preparing to release a premium theme. Probably it wont be full GPL
>> because of some premium components. Its based on my FirmaSite theme but its
>> not child-theme of FirmaSite or its not a up-sell (there is no links or any
>> type of description in FirmaSite to promote commercial ones.). Its just
>> using FirmaSite as core.
>>
>> Basically my GPL theme is not related to commercial theme. Commerical
>> theme is just using GPL theme as core. GPL theme is in
>> http://theme.firmasite.com/gpl/ and i am planning to release and give
>> support in same site ( http://theme.firmasite.com/commercial/  etc.)
>>
>> Is there any problem?
>>
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