[theme-reviewers] GPL and limiting usage

[Abhik Biswas]

Gotcha..


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> 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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