[theme-reviewers] Forking A Theme

[Emil Uzelac]

You can count changes on the fingers of one hand, it even looks the same.
Therefore it should be released as the child theme.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The argument of not being able to create a Grandchild-Theme is very strong
> so from that aspect providing proper attribution to the original theme is
> given the idea of forking a theme is fine.
>
> As to this specific theme and forking it to be specifically compatible
> with a plugin, I would expect there to be much more to the "new" theme than
> just some plugin compatibility code ... has it been suggested the two
> authors work together on the original theme to make it compatible with the
> plugin then building Child-Themes as the forking author intends would be
> more easily accomplished.
>
> Edward Caissie
> aka Cais.
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Fikri Rasyid <fikrirasyid at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm currently reviewing this theme
>> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20060 and a theme @pseudoxiah
>> made me aware that that theme is 'a fork' of another theme. The diff can be
>> seen here:
>> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/pinboard/1.1.6&new_path=/clickhome-myhome/1.1
>>
>> The theme author argues that the reason for him to fork this instead of
>> creating a child theme is that he wants user to further create a child
>> theme based on this theme and this theme is made to be compatible and used
>> with specific plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/clickhome-myhome/)
>>
>> I honestly think that it is okay to fork and submit a fork as long as the
>> theme gives appropriate credit to the original theme. However, I'm still
>> new at this and wonder is there any specific guideline about forking a
>> theme and submit it to the repo?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>>
>>
>> Fikri Rasyid
>> http://fikrirasyid.com
>>
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