Originally Posted by harvey

and how does that relate to removing a header/footer/whatever without consent? Even you are saying they're sticking to Wordpress rules, since they have hidden links they're not listed at WP codex. btw, the themes I've made aren't on wordpress codex either and I don't add any obscured code either. Am I wrong? Is WP wrong? is absolutely any relation?

I know you're not stupid so I don't understand why the reason to take those turns and leaps, you know perfectly well that what you're doing is wrong, and whoever uses your snippet of code is stealing. If I'm wrong, please explain me how, because as much as I think about it, I can't see what I'm missing. On the other hand, I admit I'm quite stupid, but always open to admit my mistakes

and just in case, here's the GNU GPL. And no, it doesn't grant any right to people to steal anything, quite the contrary