[theme-reviewers] GPL and limiting usage

[Ünsal Korkmaz]

@Otto,
I am not talking about "support"

Basically i am talking about usage. My question & concern was usage.
Basically they are restricting *usage*.

http://headwaythemes.com/pricing/ says:

> *Use on any site you or your business own*


http://www.pagelines.com/pricing/ says:

> *1 Website*

or

> *Up to 6 Websites*


I am pretty sure you cant use their themes on multi site because they
have* License
Key *system. I understand and accept they can restrict support for each
license but they are basically restricting *usage*. Why all people here
keeping saying support while i am asking usage restriction?

and 3th time i am repeating my simple question:

Can we really restrict a GPL theme *usage*? or are they mis-information on
purpose?






On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> or what @Otto said ;)
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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