Borrowing a design

  • Hi. I’ve just been through the process of setting up a basic WP installation on behalf of a client of mine. I won’t bore you with the exact details but the client has decided he’d rather not use the admin tool that is an integral part of WP. Instead I’m going to knock up a quick low-feature CMS which he’ll use instead.

    However, we’ve both become quite attached to the proposed front end design, which is an adaptation of WordPress Default 1.5 created by Michael Heilemann.

    My question is, it is permissable to re-create that adapted design from scratch even though its final use won’t be part of a WP implementation?

    Kind regards,

    Mick

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  • The default theme was released under the GPL (GNU General Public License), which allows for derivative works. But if you distribute your modifications, you should do so under the same license, as well as provide notice of changes, date of change, and original copyright holder.

    Thread Starter junglefish

    (@junglefish)

    Not quite sure I understand. Basically, I’ve retained a few visual elements, notably the blue/grey colour scheme and the rounded-edges feel. Nothing that could be said to be inherently ‘owned’ by anyone, but I wouldn’t want anyone to feel they had been plagiarised. All the html has been written from the ground up, no html was re-purposed from WordPress. If I put a simple credit at the bottom of the page acknowledging ‘inspiration from WordPress’ or something, would that suffice?

    Regards,

    Mick

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