[theme-reviewers] Duplicate/Copied Themes

Melissa Oveson missybunnie at gmail.com
Mon Jan 27 23:35:48 UTC 2014


Isn't it acceptable though for like _s and other starters to have pretty much the same structure as the starter as long as it's name spaced differently?

> On Jan 27, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
> 
> If this was a Child Theme, I would say yes. Copied Themes
> without significant differences are not acceptable.
> 
> Note that Authors URI is invalid, as well as 
> http://www.fosforito.net/wp-themes/forestly (404) 
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Casey Lee <casey at simplethemes.com> wrote:
>> Hi, I'm fairly new to the review process and am trying to help out as much as possible.
>> 
>> Theme I'm currently reviewing:
>> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16351
>> 
>> One of the first things I noticed was the striking similarity of the Iconic One theme:
>> http://cl.ly/image/3035312E3D0b
>> 
>> How do you typically handle such issues - or is this even an issue?
>> 
>> Casey
>> 
>> 
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