Revolution Pro Theme to Become Open Source

Today, Brian Gardner, the author of the popular premium theme Revolution Pro announced that the Revolution theme series will become open source (GPL License) as of 12:00 midnight, Friday October 31st. Now, since I seem to have developed a “sidebar” fetish, I’m not a big fan of his themes. Well, I just saw his latest ones and they are kinda nice…

His decision is a good one, since Revolution is a very popular theme. His new site, Revolution Theme, that will distribute and support the theme will surely get crazy traffic. Brian’s partner in the new project will be Jason Schuller, who runs WP Elements as well as the creator of the Featured Content Gallery plug-in. By the way that plugin is pretty sweet, and plan to use it in my new redivide theme, which will have, surprise, 9 sidebars :P.

To those who purchased the Revolution theme Brian has this to say:

I wanted to add that anyone who has purchased or upgraded to the current Revolution All-Inclusive membership, you will automatically inherit the ability to receive the aforementioned theme package benefits at no additional cost. This is our way of saying thanks for what you’ve spent already.

I wish them luck in their new venture.