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calling home from within a theme

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Orangine:
I get your point. I'll guess I will have to rethink it once again. In the meantime, I won't make it as [Solved], unless I get definite answer for someone on the team :)
Thank you once again.

K@:
Let me chip-in by putting it this way...

If I knew that the theme was phoning home, I'd avoid it, like the plague.

HTH. :)

I'll give the cust team a wave, though, so you can get the official line.

busterone:
I am not on the team, but have used maybe 30 to 40 different themes over the years. I have 14 installed on one of my sites at this time. I agree with both Arantor and K@. If a theme was calling home on me, I would uninstall, delete it from my server, and probably make a not so good review post here warning others of it. Although very few mods have any effect on 2.0 themes, I still do not want to have to keep reinstalling, changing, or updating them. On 1.1.x, there is a real potential issue there, since many mods do make template edits.

I do not want to discourage your theme making at all. I hope you do and look forward to seeing them. I just may like them and use them.  :)

IchBin™:
I recall rejecting some themes that have done this in the past. It's not an official rule, but a theme doesn'st really need to phone home IMO.

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