I’m a little confused about Licensing

I mean, how would they know if its released under such license or not?

Huh? I’m guessing but maybe because you didn’t specify the license? Did you include verbiage such as “This theme is licensed under GPL 2.0 or greater”?

Licensing your work is a different animal than obtaining a licence to do something.

It’s your work so you are free to license it as you see fit. See https://creativecommons.org/ for some examples

NOTE: CC may not make it GPL compatible and not valid for hosting on www.remarpro.com. I’m just suggesting you look there for clariification of how to license your work.

so that’s it? ill just put it there “these theme is released under GPL 2.0 or greater” and all the rights are reserved for me? It’s just a text, it could be changed anytime, That so easy for the bad guys to do harm to somebody, don’t you think?

I knew I should have refrained from responding…

and all the rights are reserved for me?

It’s your code right? You wrote it and did not modify someone’s work? if that’s so, then you get to determine how you license your work.

If you modified someone else’s work then unless they permit you, you (probably) can’t change the license because the code does not belong to you.

That so easy for the bad guys to do harm to somebody, don’t you think?

What exactly are your trying to accomplish again? Sharing a theme you wrote on the www.remarpro.com theme repo?

It comes down to what you want to do with your code.

If you want to share your original work and want to make sure that anything derived from your work remains free and open, then the GPL may be for you. WordPress is a fine example of GPL code that benefits people.

If you want to keep “the bad guys” from doing harm (…what’s that?…), then don’t release your code and never mind how it’s licensed.

See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html for more information, it’s really the best place to learn about the GPL.

Hi I really appreciate your response, For the meantime let’s forget about GPL or whatever license and what they do, limitations, terms, conditions, etc. What I really want to know is, from the very start, How would I prove that the theme is mine and not from somebody else. How would I prove that the theme is originally released as GPL or CC attribution?

You replied earlier that some text line saying “this theme is released under GPL 2.0 or greater” may be lacking, If I add that in my theme, then you already have your works licensed right? Again its only a text file, If somebody (bad guys) edits that texts and redistribute it under a license which is very opposite to the original, Then I found out about it, Again, How would I prove that the theme is released under a particular license?

Dig me here, How could you be protected by these licenses which could only be determined when you typed it and again as i’m saying is only a TEXT which could be EDITED?

What are your proofs that the theme is yours? Like in the real world, you got to sign contracts, deeds of sale, or anything that proves some sort of agreements. Like if a theme is released under CC Atribution, which often times means I have to give credit to the original author, What if I don’t and claim its mine? And he finds out, How would I get punished for that crime? I’d say to him, “Hey! What’s your proof that it’s yours!?

This is not just about themes im talking about. It’s all about the works (software, logos, icons, etc.) somebody released in the WWW.

WHOWW! that’s long!

Sorry, but you are missing the whole point completely. I’m going to summarize and move on.

You wanted to know why your theme was not accepted by the www.remarpro.com theme repository.

I took a guess that you did not specify the license. Looking at your web site, I see that themes there are licensed as CC from the style.css comment in your theme. That selected license apparently is not compatible with the GPL.

I suggested that you look at licensing your work and gave you some links.

Somewhere the conversation went off the rails about how to protect, make sure things don’t change, how do you know it’s mine, etc.

If you release code, there are no guarantees what will happen with that code. You license the code as a condition of it’s use. That works on the honor system and if someone does not comply, then you can demand that they stop using your code. If they don’t comply you can always pursue legal options but that’s up to you and that gets expensive and time consuming.

Moving on…

oh i’m sorry i didn’t make my self clear the first time…

I hope you won’t get tired of this, but the last part of that last response is a bull’s eye. I get it, licenses are made for people who respect its terms, people with HONOR, complies. And they are defined as simply as TEXT (I was thinking of a more SIGNED CONTRACT LIKE stuff). Finally, the PROOF part is not in your hands anymore but the judges’, lawyers’, etc. It’s SAD.

Well, Thanks for your time!

Moving on too…