[theme-reviewers] Providing commercial non-GPL themes

Ünsal Korkmaz unsalkorkmaz at gmail.com
Tue Sep 3 11:00:35 UTC 2013


where is writing that rule? can you link?


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
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>>
>>>
>>> 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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