This is pretty big/interesting http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/23/wordpress-org-bans-themeforest-authors-from-participating-in-official-wordcamp-gatherings/
Anyone following this?
you should read Jakes initial post http://www.designcrumbs.com/automatically-blackballed
as well as Collis’s response http://wpdaily.co/themeforest-wordcamps/
Thanks for the good links
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Sold between 250 000 and 1 000 000 dollars
- Item was Featured
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 50 and 99 items
- Referred between 200 and 499 users
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
hm… interesting… Thanks for sharing
Very interesting reading.
usually i don’t read much this was something i couldn’t ignore. read the whole post by designcrumbs till the end.
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Grew a moustache for the Envato Movember competition
- Author was Featured
- Community Moderator
- Referred more than 2000 users
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- United Kingdom
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Contributed a Blog Post
How many millions has Matt Mullenweg made from Wordpress again?
quickandeasy said
How many millions has Matt Mullenweg made from Wordpress again?
That’s not the point 
- Envato Staff
- Reviewer
- Community Moderator
- Venezuela
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars
- Exclusive Author
“To help clarify this point, I reached out to the Software Freedom Law Center, the world’s preëminent experts on the GPL, which spent time with WordPress’s code, community, and provided us with an official legal opinion. One sentence summary: PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may be but are not required.” – Software Freedom Law Center back in 2009.
- United States
- Sold between 250 000 and 1 000 000 dollars
- Has been a member for 5-6 years
- Referred between 100 and 199 users
- Bought between 100 and 499 items
- Author was Featured
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Exclusive Author
Ivor said
“To help clarify this point, I reached out to the Software Freedom Law Center, the world’s preëminent experts on the GPL, which spent time with WordPress’s code, community, and provided us with an official legal opinion. One sentence summary: PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may be but are not required.” – Software Freedom Law Center back in 2009.
As a note and an addition to this statement – this is for producing themes for WordPress, the rules for taking part in a WordCamp are “different” (must be in the ‘spirit’ of the WordPress community – which they are saying means everything in a theme should be GPL 100%) and therefore the issue arises.
