[theme-reviewers] GPL and limiting usage

[Abhik Biswas]

For the logo in the footer part, no you can not. You can not force users to
pay for removing the credit link.
Oh!! And we may not also have a logo as the credit link, it got to be a
text. Read it somewhere in the mailing list.


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Ulrich Pogson <grapplerulrich at gmail.com>wrote:

> @Otto Can I add functionality to a theme that only will be activated when
> the user enters a key that they need to buy? Or I have a logo in the footer
> that is only removed when the commercial key is bought?
>
> Thanks, just checking as I am not an expert on GPL.
>
>
> On 18 September 2013 01:00, Simon Prosser <pross at pross.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> [quote]
>> They are still trying to bend rules with limiting usage on a different
>> way (plugin way). What will happen when they move to plugin?
>> That plugin still cant be GPL and isnt theme author's all publicly
>> selling products need to be GPL?
>> [/quote]
>>
>> Nowhere in that ticket does it say PageLines intend to use a plugin to
>> 'bend rules'.
>>
>> The plugin would contain the shortcodes that are not allowed in the
>> theme, because they belong in a plugin.
>>
>>
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