[theme-reviewers] Theme Author has copied our theme

[Emil Uzelac]

It happens :)

Happy Sunday!

On Sunday, July 27, 2014, Michael Hebenstreit <michael at mhthemes.com> wrote:

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