[theme-reviewers] GPL and limiting usage

[Chip Bennett]

Logo as footer credit link is not inherently prohibited.


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Abhik Biswas <abhik at itsabhik.com> wrote:

> 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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