[theme-reviewers] Why can't theme authors have a second version of a theme?

[Bruce Wampler]

I saw nothing disrespectful in anything Cyberchimps said.

> Tom <mailto:wptr at edge22.com>
> September 27, 2014 at 10:55 AM
>
> Was reading along all of yesterday, and was glad to see it go to an 
> admin vote.
>
> It seems all of the admins (so far), have voted no – so why isn't this 
> a dropped topic?
>
> It seems to me that Cyberchimps staff aren't going to stop until they 
> get what they want – even if it means being sarcastic and disrespectful.
>
> Sad to see.
>
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> Bryan Hadaway <mailto:bhadaway at gmail.com>
> September 27, 2014 at 10:42 AM
> *@Bruce* - I'm not really even worried about the legality of anything. 
> Ultimately, whether non-profit or not, wordpress.org 
> <http://wordpress.org> is ultimately someone else's website and to be 
> hosted on their site we must play by their rules. Fortunately, it's a 
> community that doesn't generally set hard-and-fast rules and say take 
> it or leave and instead allows open debate like this.
>
> All one needs to do is take a step back, remove both .org and the 
> developer from the equation and think about what's going to cause the 
> least amount of frustration for the end-user.
>
> That's how our internal conversations go down with the CyberChimps 
> team. To me, that seems like the most logical and objective approach.
>
> *@tskk79* - Alright, well I'll thank you for your input and wish you a 
> good weekend. Hopefully we can put a pin in this until Monday.
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> Srikanth Koneru <mailto:tskk79 at gmail.com>
> September 27, 2014 at 10:32 AM
> @Bryan, there is nothing new in your information except the FUD that 
> you have trademark to "Responsive"
>
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> Bruce Wampler <mailto:weavertheme at gmail.com>
> September 27, 2014 at 10:11 AM
> I just sent a note to Trent, too.
>
> I'm not 100% sure that these people recognize that they really aren't 
> a little free software organization any more, and even though the base 
> organization is non-profit, they are certainly subject to a whole lot 
> of interstate commerce law. I have little doubt that depriving us of 
> our brand name is not even remotely legal.
>
> I  would seriously consider joining with you in seeking legal counsel 
> and even in a lawsuit if it comes to it. They are wrong, and they 
> would be depriving us of our legal rights, even if they are a 
> volunteer non-profit. And they are so wrong.
>
> Bruce
>
> Bryan Hadaway <mailto:bhadaway at gmail.com>
> September 27, 2014 at 10:02 AM
> *@Bruce* - Thank you very much for hopping into this discussion, as 
> ironically, everyone has been using your theme as an example for 
> precedence of how this situation should be handled in favor of NOT 
> allowing us to do what we need to, when in fact how you handled the 
> major Weaver upgrade is exactly how we would like to handle 
> Responsive's new upgrade.
>
> Not confusing at all and definitely in the best interest for the 
> end-user. The alternative suggestions so far, just develop 
> backwards-compatibility (bloat), discontinue one version to open 
> another (dropping support for users that don't want to switch), 
> changing the theme name (confusing users who are looking for the 
> newest incarnation), update directly over version 1.0 (inevitably 
> breaking many websites and taking the blame for it) etc. have all been 
> both more difficult in terms of development and more confusing for 
> users, besides being contrary to logic.
>
> What you've done and what we would like to do is hands-down the most 
> graceful way to handle the situation. Hopefully, we get a yes on that.
>
> Thank you.
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