Comment posted to Bill McRea Passive Income WordPress Theme Review by Template Creator.
I’ve been restrained in what I think of what Bill McRea has done regarding the copying of the majority of the Talian 05 theme for his Passive Income ad theme.
Ethically it is questionable at best.
With your reasoning does this mean I can sell Bill McRea’s products with minor alterations including any copyright material owned by Bill McRea? For example it would take me a couple of hours to strip out the PHP obfuscation of the Massive Passive Profits Plugin with Masscreate included and market it as mine or even give it away for free. I’d consider that unethical, what about you Leigh.
Since writing the article above I’ve had a look at the Passive Income theme source code and it’s a clear copyright infringement.
All he’s done is get a WordPress theme developer to remove the Talian 05 look and extra SEO code and other extras and put a new ‘face’ on it, he’s even forgot to remove some of the code (code that’s taken me years to develop) that’s not used in the current templates look (it’s a poor job whoever did the coding).
David
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