By fjcalzado@gmail.com on

Hi friends.
I´ve done a port for Drupal of the wordpress theme Cutline, by Chris
Pearson (you can see an example here: www.fcalzado.net). My doubt is: can
I share it with the Drupal community? My version is based on the Zen theme
(gnu license), and Cutline's license is Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Should I include a copy of both licenses?? (I
don´t know how contact Chris Pearson...)
Also I have a port for Drupal of Enchant v2 theme, by Lee Cooper (original
wordpress demo: http://themes.wordpress.net/testrun/?wptheme=3898) My
version is almost the same. Can I share it??
Thanks for your advice!!!

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Comments

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styro commented

you will need to share it with a GPL license. And it will need to be GPL licensed to be uploaded to drupal.org.

As far as I can tell (don't quote me on this) the sharealike license is incompatible with the GPL (for code at least - artwork might be ok). see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html (down near the bottom).

So it would be tricky to legally redistribute a combined GPL/sharealike theme. It depends on exactly what is licensed with the CC license, and if you can manage to keep them separate from the GPLed bits somehow (I'm not sure where CSS fits in). But unless it is all GPL, you won't be able to upload it to drupal.org anyway (this is a drupal.org policy).

It would be best to ask the FSF for a better answer.

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Anton
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