[wp-forums] FYI: dodgy theme promotion

[Amy Hendrix]

I'll see if I can clarify anything on the thread, but just for
reference here in case it comes up again, MIT is a GPL-compatible
license and totally fine for theme submissions. It's the rest of that
mess that wouldn't be allowed in the repo...

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:22 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net> wrote:
> Just put <http://wordpress.org/support/profile/christina-nguyen> on a temp
> bozo. They're just trying to promote their own theme - which I duly checked
> out.
>
> 1. Despite the blurb on the site, the theme is not released under GPL but
> under an MIT license.
>
> 2. Dig into the theme itself and you'll find it de-registers core jQuery -
> very naughty.
>
> 3. And this is really weird - the "download" link points to a whopping 19M
> zip file - which is actually a complete copy of WP! I've not checked through
> everything but that sets off all kinds of alarm bells for me.
>
> I've explained all of this to the theme dev(?) in
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-introduce-own-free-theme-on-wordpressorg-and-wordpresscom
> (where s/he seems to have completely missed the point about how to actually
> submit a theme) but they may just try re-posting their theme blurb and
> download again. Hence the b-code.
>
> Mel
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