Theme Attribution

  • Hi.

    Please, help me with understanding a theme licensing topic.

    It’s said that all themes in WordPress Library go with the same license as WordPress.
    After reading the license I’m not sure if it’s obligatory to mention Theme author on site.

    Do I have to save, for example, a footer phrase “Theme by Company X”, or it’s legal to remove the mention of theme author from site?

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    It’s said that all themes in WordPress Library go with the same license as WordPress.

    Yes. All themes are GPL’ed by virtue of being a derivative of WordPress which is all GPL licensed code.

    After reading the license I’m not sure if it’s obligatory to mention Theme author on site.

    I’m not sure which license you mean. If a theme author is saying that you can’t remove the link then please let us know. There’s no “legal” about it at all.

    That link is not obligatory at all. You can modify GPL code to remove the displaying of credit to the author if you like. Many people do and that is perfectly alright to do.

    Note that this does not mean that you can claim someone else’s code as your own. You do have to maintain the credits in the source if you distribute it or a changed version of the theme.

    Thread Starter tatatatata

    (@tatatatata)

    Thanks for the answer, Jan!

    I was partly unsure because I’ve seen themes that have credit removal option (using CUSTOMIZE) only for PRO versions of themes. This is where I got idea that maybe you can only remove credits when you bought the PRO version.

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