It’s a rather hardline attitude to GPL, unfortunately.

We have plans to work with this. We’ve realised that, rather like MP3s, if someone wants to rip off our work, they can. I’m reliably told that copies of most premium themes are available from torrents already anyway. So instead we’ll probably just use easy licensing. Funnily enough, one problem with it is that it increases our costs somewhat – if we buy in image licenses and track legal downloads we can cost them out quite economically… but if the GPL is going to be applied to the image we have to pay, and pay heavily.

We’re still trying to work out the exact model to apply. Being frozen out of WordPress.org doesn’t appeal, but neither does losing money. We have to be careful. Anyway, interesting plugins you have – well done :-)

Here is a solution — create a website that list all those who are using stolen stylesheets and make it rank first for their target keywords (business name, domain, etc.).