Comments on: ThemeForest Goes GPL For it’s WordPress Themes https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/13/themeforest-goes-gpl-for-its-wordpress-themes/ Useful Resources For Webmasters Thu, 14 May 2026 11:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 By: April First https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/13/themeforest-goes-gpl-for-its-wordpress-themes/#comment-20944 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:10:55 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2361#comment-20944 Help, I’m upside down! Hey pretty cool, but I just h’ckd you…

April Fools! :)

]]> By: Matt https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/13/themeforest-goes-gpl-for-its-wordpress-themes/#comment-20852 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:40:06 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2361#comment-20852 The current line from the WordPress project is that any PHP, HTML and JavaScript should be GPL compatible, while you can have a more restrictive license on your CSS and images. The logic is that images and CSS are completely ignored by WordPress and directly served-up by the server, while WordPress gets involved with the others.

I personally don’t agree with their interpretation of what is and isn’t “derivative” of WordPress, and think that it’s far too aggressive in what is included, but I think it’s better to play along than to make waves in the community…

]]> By: Stelios https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/13/themeforest-goes-gpl-for-its-wordpress-themes/#comment-20822 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:40:56 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2361#comment-20822 Hi Matt,

Old article but just came across it…so if we create a theme for WordPress it must be released under GPL, does this includes the admin area and options we create? How about the css and images of the admin/options area if someone would like to use our theme to creates his own in order to redistribute it he would have to write new css and new images for the admin area as well as the front-end, is that correct?

]]> By: Dean Saliba https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/13/themeforest-goes-gpl-for-its-wordpress-themes/#comment-8868 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:06:53 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2361#comment-8868 Sounds liek a smart business idea but I'm not in the position to spend money on a theme yet. And I think a lot of people will fall into the same boat as me and find a decent free theme to customise.

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