Creative Market just announced that all of their WordPress Themes are now 100% GPL, meaning to list in their marketplace and reach their users your theme must provide users with the same freedoms that WordPress itself does. They have some great themes already. This is fantastic news and I’m very proud of their team for taking this bold step, and as promised WordPress.org homepage promotion is forthcoming. I think we’ll see more of these down the line, especially as WordPress consumers start demanding 100% GPL from anything they buy.
your links are dead/wrong (too much ma.tt in it 😉 – feels kind of awkward to leave this comment on your blog… it’s like typing erorrs, we all make them.
Good news to have the theme business going GPL, great for the community and what has made wordpress what it is today !
Sorry about that, I run trunk on this site and there is some funkiness right now with slashes in core.
well, great to hear that you’re running trunk here, really shows how involved you are (you could just be surfing with naked unicorns instead)
Way I see it, if I pay for it. I should be able to do what I darned well please with it.
Good for them.
I wonder, Matt, did you ever hear about my little marketplace that was launched a couple of years ago?
WonderThemes was GPL from day one and offered awesome rates but failed to get traction. WP Candy did you great feature recently: http://wpcandy.com/presents/the-story-of-wonderthemes-starting-a-wordpress-theme-marketplace/
I think I came across it when I was searching for 100% GPL marketplaces, but it was already closed at that point.
Damn, looks like I was early/late to the party again 🙂 thanks for checking it out.
Awesome! Just came across their website few days ago.
Hopefully more and more theme marketplace or companies will make their products 100% GPL.
As a partner of Authentic Themes (current theme seller on Creative Market) I think its amazing that they have gone full GPL and that they’ve made the change so quickly. Now just waiting for TF to do the same 😉
thanks for the heads up! We’ll be supporting them this week.
Amazing news. As AJ said let’s wait for TF’s move 🙂
100% GPL would make for some cool t-shirts, caps and hoodies. Perfect for the Swag Store.
As long as the shirts are free 😉
Great development – who’d have guessed five years ago that companies would be able these days to build a business on GPL themes…