[theme-reviewers] A couple of doubts about the "Make" theme and what's allowed

[Srikanth Koneru]

but we should continue discussing about modifying the guideline which says
if there is a theme option to disable the credit link then it must be
disabled by default, since that guideline is actually deterring theme
authors from providing an easy way to turn off the credit link.
In a new topic if you like.



On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> Hey Joan,
>
> If is not too much trouble in the future can you please Cc the admin from
> the ticket directly and let's not review the themes from the list!
>
> General opinions matter, but in this case they are irrelevant :)
>
> We have been saying and doing this for a while, let's keep it that way.
>
> Thanks,
> Emil
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That notice does imply that user has to upgrade to remove credit link,
>> maybe remove that guideline instead?
>> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11514#comment:4
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Joan Boluda <joan at boluda.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Zack!
>>>
>>> Yeah, I see your point. Since there is no "opt-out" option allowed,
>>> that's one solution (maybe the only one) if you wanted to have the credit
>>> AND the opt-out. I'll consider that when reviewing other themes. I see you
>>> really examined closely that statement :)
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *J**oan Boluda*
>>> *Consultor de Marketing Online*
>>> http://boluda.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Zack Tollman <tollmanz at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Joan!
>>>>
>>>> When considering how to add the theme credit, we carefully poured over
>>>> that statement. We definitely wanted to have the credit *and* wanted to
>>>> have an opt-out; however, the guidelines simply do not allow that *and*
>>>> allow you to show the credit by default. As such, we moved the option to
>>>> the commercial offering. We thought a lot about how to do this and while we
>>>> didn't want the perception of "upgrade to remove", we felt somewhat forced
>>>> into it if we wanted to show the credit by default.
>>>>
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