[theme-reviewers] Theme Author has copied our theme

[Emil Uzelac]

​Thank you for letting us know. Ticket has been reopened and author
notified. Please note that anyone can base their theme on yours, but we do
not accept clones.

Emil​


On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Michael Hebenstreit <michael at mhthemes.com>
wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> we just noticed that a theme author has copied our theme almost 1:1 and
> uploaded it to WordPress.org:
>
> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19505
>
> That theme is a 1:1 copy of our theme which you can find here:
>
> https://wordpress.org/themes/mh-magazine-lite
>
> Please have a look at the authors theme screenshot and then compare this
> to our theme demo:
>
> http://www.mhthemes.com/dev_magazine/
>
> It seems some people really lack any kind of honor, honesty and in this
> case even creativity…
>
> What can we do to resolve this situation? Is the author allowed to upload
> this copy?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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