WordPress.org bans Themeforest members from participating in official WordCamp gatherings

Caldazar said
But I get the feeling this guy’s about something else anyways: Envato not letting the authors and copyright holders choose their licence as they see fit. I think the term he used was that being ‘evil’. And he mentioned that Envato at least allowing authors to go full GPL might be the compromise he was willing to settle the dispute. (As some may know, this happens to be the deal-breaker for me also.)

Why is Wordpress.org not letting the authors and copyright holders choose their license? I think Wordpress.org should allow to go split license.

Peace

Collis made another post http://wpdaily.co/theme-clarity/ much respect for that man.

^^ Kudos to his reply – great post.

OrganicBeeMedia said
Collis made another post http://wpdaily.co/theme-clarity/ much respect for that man.

Great move and well deserved to ask for clarity too.

I guess, still split license will be the obvious preference for the authors who contributes creativity as major part.

OrganicBeeMedia said
Collis made another post http://wpdaily.co/theme-clarity/ much respect for that man.

The GPL licensing questions and results will relate not just to WordPress themes, but also to the multiple other GPL-based CMSes we support

I hope the GPL option does not become available only for a determined number of high profile GPL based products.

I’m also currently extending an existing system that is GPL based, which I’d like to start selling here and being able to GPL license would be nice. Otherwise, I’d have to package code separately, making it clear what is GPL licensed and what not with an alternate download for the GPL parts, it’s painful.

OrganicBeeMedia said
Collis made another post http://wpdaily.co/theme-clarity/ much respect for that man.

thx for the link, agree a great post by Collis. You’re asking the right questions. Especially re commercial interests of who’s asking for what. I think whatever can be done to protect the IP rights of authors and commercial viability of envato/TF is a smart idea.

Smart move from Collis, an excellent response.

It will be interesting to see how this all pans out if authors do being switching to 100% GPL…

Anyone switching to 100% GPL will presumably lose the option of the extended license, right?

Also, if a CodeCanyon author goes 100% GPL, then TF theme authors could buy their plugin / slider / whatever and then bundle it into their theme. Correct?

Assuming that Envato don’t decide to prevent the above, then other CMS developers could also buy a WP theme and port it over to another platform and sell it here too – as the design is now GPL. Right?

In fact, how much would someone need to modify a theme / plugin before Envato would allow them to sell their ‘new’ version on the marketplaces?

PixelBuffet said
In fact, how much would someone need to modify a theme / plugin before Envato would allow them to sell their ‘new’ version on the marketplaces?

I hope that doesn’t become a possibility, i.e. if the proposed plugin/theme is not part of a larger app that does something quite different than the proposed material, then I’m expecting for it not to be accepted, otherwise the marketplace becomes pointless.

In short, why should an author want to post an item here as GPL, if the next person can just pick it up and re-propose it with slight variations ? You basically end up competing against yourself otherwise

Typps said
I hope that doesn’t become a possibility, i.e. if the proposed plugin/theme is not part of a larger app that does something quite different than the proposed material, then I’m expecting for it not to be accepted, otherwise the marketplace becomes pointless.

That would prevent people from abusing GPL to copy / profit from each others work, and prevent you from competing with your own work.

If we all went GPL (which I can’t see happening, to be honest), then it would be a nightmare for the reviewers to police…!

I thought with GPL, one can upload the exact same (purchased) files into same marketplace (again with GPL as only license) – internal polices of marketplace can’t restrict! Correct me if I am wrong.