[theme-reviewers] GPL and limiting usage

[Otto]

It's not necessarily "mis-information". The key to focus on here is
"support". It's perfectly legitimate for a company selling themes to
not restrict actual usage, but to instead restrict the level of
support that they offer. So you might offer support for only a limited
number of sites, say for a single domain, but offer support for any
number of sites at a higher price level.

It may be slightly misleading, and I can understand that sort of
interpretation, but hey, that's marketing for you.


-Otto


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Ünsal Korkmaz <unsalkorkmaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think its WPTRT related because all those commercial sellers need to have
> 1 theme in wordpress.org:
>>
>> Have at least one theme in the WordPress.org Themes Directory that is
>> actively maintained
>
>
> And i got those replies from my previous question:
> http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2013-September/015078.html
> http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2013-May/012868.html
>
>> In order to have a Theme hosted in the directory, a developer must release
>> *all* Themes under a GPL-compatible license.
>
>
> Yes they released as GPL as they saying in legal notice, while they saying
> "you can only use in 1 site" in front of their site.
>
> and my question was simple tho:
> Can we really restrict a GPL theme usage? or are they mis-information on
> purpose?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>
>> +1 and to add that there is nothing to "inspect" here :)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Edward Caissie
>> <edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> There may be some concerns with their pricing/licensing verbiage but as
>>> Amy noted, that is not within the purview of the WPTRT team.
>>>
>>> If you have concerns about commercial themes those need to be brought to
>>> the attention of the folks answering the emails sent to themes at wordpress.org
>>> (see the bottom of the commercial listing page).
>>>
>>>
>>> Edward Caissie
>>> aka Cais.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The commercial themes list has nothing to do with WPTRT
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Ünsal Korkmaz <unsalkorkmaz at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > I am inspecting commercial examples in
>>>> > http://wordpress.org/themes/commercial/ but i see some restricts on
>>>> > GPL
>>>> > theme usages..
>>>> >
>>>> > http://headwaythemes.com/pricing/
>>>> > http://www.pagelines.com/pricing/
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Am i missing something? or can we really restrict a GPL theme usage?
>>>> > or are
>>>> > they mis-information on purpose?
>>>> >
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