[theme-reviewers] Theme Author has copied our theme

[Michael Hebenstreit]

Hi Emil,

thanks a lot for taking care of that.

We don’t have problems if people get inspiration of other peoples work, like this example:

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19188

It’s also very similar, but the author at least took the time to add his own design elements.

But what the other author did was just stealing. He even used post titles from our theme demo in his screenshot. That is just miserable…and in the end really sad. :-(

Have a nice sunday.

Regards,
Michael


Am 27.07.2014 um 09:37 schrieb Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me>:

> ​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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