[theme-reviewers] GPL and limiting usage

[Ulrich Pogson]

@Chip

This is what I see when I installed DMS on a vanilla site. Is this fine?
http://i.imgur.com/rS75BZL.png

Also is the use of pl_is_pro() ok?
http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dms/1.0.3/footer.php?rev=27914#L52


On 20 September 2013 21:35, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> There is no "server side function set". ALL the code is contained in the
> Plugin. The server connection is merely to determine if the payment
> subscription is current, and if it isn't, code contained within the
> distributed Plugin is disabled.
>
> That is a usage restriction.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Dane Morgan <dane at danemorganmedia.com>wrote:
>
>> So the code that was moved to a plugin *is* GPL and the keys just grant
>> api type access between the code and a server side function set. In the
>> same way that, for instance, akismet. If someone wanted to provide all of
>> the data they could potentially set up their own server and achieve similar
>> functionality without keeping a subscription?
>>
>>
>> Otto wrote:
>>
>>> The concern here was originally that the "pro code" in question was in
>>> the theme. Outside of the GPL, WordPress.org does not allow code to be
>>> hosted in its repositories that requires payment to function. It's one
>>> thing to connect to a service (even a paid one) to do something with
>>> that service, but it's wholly another thing to have code that
>>> otherwise works but which is simply "disabled" by the service until
>>> payment is made.
>>>
>>> If you want to sell "code", then you host that code yourself. That was
>>> the primary concern, and why I suggested they move that code into a
>>> separate plugin.
>>>
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