Comments on: WordPress To Launch Theme Marketplace, All Themes To be GPL

By: Marylin Dean

Marylin Dean — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:25:37 +0000

I enjoyed reading your material. Thanks !

By: Be a Good Daughter

Be a Good Daughter — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:20:15 +0000

Hello the comment is delightful.
I will definitely read your site..
thank you again

By: vangardx

vangardx — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:07:39 +0000

hye arpit jacob, so now you put the “on hold status” for azure sky? hm..:(

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By: Arpit Jacob

Arpit Jacob — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:58:56 +0000

@Toni I sent you the mail again I hope you get it this time please let me know if you didn’t get it.

Adam is right you can’t prevent people from stealing GPL themes. It would be violation of the GPL licence itself.

By: adam

adam — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:33:57 +0000

@tony -
your “detect and prevent” comment seems odd to me. preventing people from using GPL themes with the CSS upgrade would violate the 4 freedoms of the GPL, and if people are using the CSS upgrade to use site rips, that would be covered by your DMCA policy. What is there to work on?

By: Toni Schneider

Toni Schneider — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:20:36 +0000

Arpit, I never got your follow up email (I just rechecked my inbox). Sorry about that – can you resend? If someone wants to take a CSS theme and use it via the wp.com CSS upgrade feature, they’ll do it whether it’s GPL or not. If this starts to happen we can work to detect and prevent it.

By: Arpit Jacob

Arpit Jacob — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:01:11 +0000

“There are always people willing to pay for something that is free because they are to lazy to learn how to implement the free version.”

@Jonathan you know what, you do have a really good point there. I have noticed this a lot. I get a lot of emails requesting for Design help for my free themes I usually reply back with explanations but some people rather pay me to get it done.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:48:17 +0000

First, I’m excited to see your next theme released.

As far as the marketplace is concerned, it does seem to have some logical wholes, but what I have learned two things in business and from learning about opensource projects. First, there are always people willing to produce for free just to bypass the corporation that charges. And second, there are always people willing to pay for something that is free because they are to lazy to learn how to implement the free version.

By: archGFX | Selling A GPL product is a bad idea

archGFX | Selling A GPL product is a bad idea — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:26:08 +0000

[...] themselves aren’t further hampered by having to open-source their graphics.Â Arpit is right to question the sensibility of such a marketplace, and Michael Martin reaches a similar conclusion.Â Meaning, once it’s been bought, but in this [...]