[theme-reviewers] Providing commercial non-GPL themes

[Srikanth Koneru]

http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2013-May/012868.html
and also in many tickets, you can read some closed tickets, too lazy to
find them for you :)


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Ünsal Korkmaz <unsalkorkmaz at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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