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

[Emil Uzelac]

Yes by all means :)

On Sunday, July 13, 2014, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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