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Originally Posted by Brujah
A "gray area" would apply whether a developers license was purchased or not. Themes as a whole are not required to be GPL licensed. The portion that uses WordPress -- usually the php files are -- but not the html, css, images, js, etc... Otherwise, everyone selling themes and plugins here on GFY, could have one person purchase and then give it away to everyone else for free. One person could purchase the package from fris, and then give it away to everyone else. That's how the GPL works.
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Which was my point and one made by others. These are all released as GPL. So yes, technically fris could give them all away and sell them. Yes, they frown upon it. Yes, they don't want it to be done. But, there's nothing stopping fris from doing what he is doing. Especially since they have more expensive "developers" licenses they take this into account.
fris paid for the right to do this. He might be a bit more liberal with who he calls a client (ie. anyone who give him $50), but that doesn't mean he can't do what he did.
This has been hashed out back and forth for years now in the WP circles. The developer's license with the added cost was one of the ORIGINAL RESPONSES to this sort of thing going down.