[theme-reviewers] Providing commercial non-GPL themes

Srikanth Koneru tskk79 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 3 10:59:43 UTC 2013


Any theme by you, linked to the theme in directory or not should be full gpl


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Ünsal Korkmaz <unsalkorkmaz at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Ünsal Korkmaz <unsalkorkmaz at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>>    - 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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