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this is an Open Source project, so you have to leave original credits in order to respect the license.

is incorrect. This may just be a small misunderstanding, but from the GPL,

the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program

Anyone who downloads a GPL theme has the legal right, under the license, to modify or remove any part they do not like, including your 'mandatory' attribution.
Doubly so as the web page is a 'product' of the software, not the software itself. Server code and libraries is covered by the license, HTML output is not.

The theme looks good and all, and it's fine and fair to ask that you get attribution. But saying that they "have to" leave the credits in the visible output is misinformation.

Projects get unpublished for this. Other projects just reword it a little softer, so I'd suggest you look at the license terms again.
#387368: Licensing - Does this thems comply to GPL ?
#127640: Not GPL compatible
#468338: GPL violation on project page

This can probably be sorted out pretty easily, but we need to clear up that misleading interpretation of the license you currently have on the project page.

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FiNeX’s picture

FiNeX CreditAttribution: FiNeX commented
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thanks, it was a wrong copy/paste :-)

dman’s picture

dman CreditAttribution: dman commented

All good. Hope you don't mind. Asking for attribution is fine! I just don't think we need a confusing interpretation of the license on the download page. :-)
Cool.

FiNeX’s picture

FiNeX CreditAttribution: FiNeX commented

Don't worry, your're right :-)