[theme-reviewers] GPL and limiting usage

[Chip Bennett]

This is why it matters, and why it is within our scope and
purview<http://wordpress.org/themes/about/>
:

Themes from sites that support non-GPL (or compatible) themes or violate
the WordPress community guidelines themes will not be approved.


Now, I don't believe for one second that this policy is limited to Themes,
and that non-GPL Plugins would be treated any differently. If the Plugin
subscription model represents a GPL-incompatible usage restriction, then it
should fall under this same policy, which is based on WordPress
free-software philosophy <http://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/>.


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> wrote:
> > I think the source of confusion stems from here: whether in the Theme,
> or in
> > a commercial Plugin, code is being distributed that *stops working*
> > (partially) if a subscription payment isn't maintained.
>
> I understand that viewpoint.
>
> However, this is the theme reviewers mailing list. So I fail to see
> how exactly is this relevant to a theme, which no longer contains this
> code, being approved for the directory or not?
>
> Are you proposing to change the guidelines such that we are now
> judging everything a developer does, regardless of where they do it?
> Because last I checked, that up-sell requirement was limited in scope
> for a reason.
>
> If I make a piece of code and release it for free, and then make
> add-ons to that piece of code and sell them separately, then at what
> point have I violated the current guidelines?
>
> -Otto
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