Tomz

Ok you are legally right Yeah but we have to educate users like him without accusing them being theft. And to night its exactly what we have done here 🤣! Great job guys 😂 Peace!✌️

The point is no one is stealing anything in our case dah! Are you trolling me ? 🤣 You got me!

Its ok he is from UK he dont know what Freedom is yet lol 😝 After being slave for to long, it can take hundreds of years to assimilate lol We talk to a kid that just want to learn dude. Be back to reality plz! He even dont want to distribute or develop anything here! I hope this will help you all to understand what freedom is : To develop WordPress themes for the public—either free or paid— you need to get acquainted with the GNU General Public License (GPL) that WordPress uses. GPL basic freedoms The spirit of openness and sharing has thrived within the WordPress community because of fundamental principles that form the core of its license. One way to think of the GPL is as a “Bill of Rights” for software. The GPL establishes the following four freedoms: Freedom to run the program for any purpose. Freedom to study how the program works and to change it, so it performs computing as you wish. Freedom to redistribute copies, so you can help your neighbor. Freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions, giving the community a chance to benefit from your changes. What is “free” in the context of software? The ‘free’ in free software, refers to freedom and not price. The Free Software Foundation likes to say “free as in speech, not as in beer.” Free software is software that users can use to do as they wish. It need not be free from cost, although the ones hosted on the WordPress.org theme directory are. Free software can come with a price tag. In other words, you can create a GPL theme and sell it for $50, and it would still be free software. Why? Because the user is free to run, modify, and distribute the software or any modifications of that software. Keeping it free for all The freedoms of the GPL don’t only apply to the original piece of software; works derived from GPL-licensed software must also adopt the same license, without restrictions or additional terms. In this sense, the GPL provides the ultimate protection of freedom by making sure that anything that is derived from free software cannot be “locked down” after the fact; it must remain forever free to future experimentation and exploration. Do I need to license my themes under the GPL? If you have no plans to distribute your theme then you do not need to adopt the GPL license for your work. The GPL only applies to distributed software. If you are not distributing your software – for example, a theme used only by yourself or on your local machine – you do not need to adopt the GPL. If you wish to submit your creation to the free theme repository on WordPress.org, it must be 100% GPL compliant, including CSS and image files. Because the freedoms spelled out in the GPL are at the heart of WordPress, we encourage developers to distribute their themes with a 100% GPL-compatible license. Note:Freedom is an important part of developing WordPress themes. If you plan to distribute your theme, it is a good idea to license it fully under the GPL, so others can enjoy the same freedoms that you did when creating it.

If you have read it you should have noticed that, In the first line, It is mentioned: To develop WordPress themes for the public—either free or paid— you need to get acquainted with the GNU General Public License (GPL) that WordPress uses. And every wordpress themes come with a license txt file that said the same thing! And yeah it its really looks like you were not able to find this simple facts by your self in less than 18 month. And by the way its not me that wrongly accusing peoples of being theft so the burden of proof was not on me. I have a life and things to do. If I was paid for, like you i would never left an un-answered post like this during 18 months lol But its a good news if I did not come here more often its because Daren selling good stuff. Regards!

All WordPress items such as plugins and themes are licensed under the General Public Licence (GPL). This means that once we have purchased the item we are free to redistribute it if we choose to do so. Your membership to our site goes towards maintaining and buying the subscriptions to 3rd party theme and plugin authors. This form of crowd funding helps keep prices low and we can then pass this benefit on to you. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/getting-started/wordpress-licensing-the-gpl/

anyway almost every wordpress themes are GPL V3.0 so technically he's not stealing he just want to use the same theme treating new users as theft does not help open sources communities