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by onemorepassword 4764 days ago
Wait, wasn't the discussion about Wordpress themes having to be GPL (being purely derivative works) over and done years ago?

You create a derivative work of GPL-ed software and call somebody else a thief for doing the same to you?
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gojomo 4764 days ago
The claimed original work here is not a WordPress theme.
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onemorepassword 4764 days ago
"Our template has as we speak been sold a 361 times within half a year and it's still increasing. Themeforest rated our template worth a $17."

Yes it is. Which basically means the author is refusing to acknowledge the copyright of the WordPress authors and the license rights of the ones he's calling thieves.

There's one pirate here, and it's StampReady.

Also, I think Email on Acid have a good case for libel. This is willful public defamation.

Edit: Apparently, I'm wrong about this being a WordPress theme. My apologies.

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bdcravens 4764 days ago
You seem stuck on the idea that it's a WordPress theme. It is not. The theme (linked from the article):

http://themeforest.net/item/the-talk-responsive-email-templa...

It's a responsive email template. Not a WordPress template. None of your proselytizing about WP themes and the GPL is applicable to this situation.

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gojomo 4764 days ago
Where is your evidence that it's a WordPress-related template? Here is the ThemeForest page for the claimed original work from StampReady:

http://themeforest.net/item/the-talk-responsive-email-templa...

It appears under the 'email templates' section. The only place the string 'WordPress' appears on that page is in top navigation (to a different section). The template is described as being compatible with, among other things: Mailchimp, Gmail, Thunderbird, and Outlook. It's not described as interacting with WordPress in any way.

You're making nasty allegations of bad-faith based on an erroneous assumption -- that this is a template for WordPress or derived from WordPress. There are other kinds of templates sold on ThemeForest!

Unless you can provide evidence that StampReady's email template 'The Talk' is derived from WordPress, you should apologize to StampReady and/or delete the allegations against StampReady of piracy, 'libel', and 'willful public defamation' in your latest comment.

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