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Well, I love to surf around and see people using my themes, I absolutely hate to see that the majority of them have removed the credits. Regardless of whether or not I have specifically requested this to not happen... still does.

debianus wrote:
It is a shame.
I believe that you must publish who are doing it.

DefianceB0y wrote:
Thats a very complete document, i like it :)

DefianceB0y wrote:
Yeah i only released 2-3 themes that had a MUST keep credits but say from a 10 sites found, only 2 had credits intact lol so i didn't bother to do that anymore...i might license future works or sell them at 1$ each

DefianceB0y wrote:
LOL and what..all the sites that are charging for XOOPS themes are breaking the GPL...i doubt it...tis' my work i release it however the hell i want to release it!