Several people have asked about what had happened to the Brian’s Revolution 2 themes…
Apparently, a few weeks after we reported on the open sourcing and public availability of the unveiled Revolution 2 themes for WordPress, there was a change of heart, apparently. All of the links that we described in detail were yanked, with no explanation on the site itself. This led to the inevitable searching by interested webbies looking for the open source themes.
With a little uncovering, on the Revolution 2 themes forum, as well as other WordPress-related discussion sites, you may spot the reasons tossed around concerning why the download links were removed. The biggest reason appears to be that the free downloads were a marketing ploy which may not have worked out as well as Brian & Co. wished, so they just stopped offering the themes for free.
Now, the Revolution 2 themes were announced to be GPL’ed under the same WordPress GPL license. Which means that you, as a responsible GPL-adhering programmer, have the ability to make changes to your Revolution 2 themes that you already have, as long as you comply with the terms of that GPL license. 
