# Selling discourse theme

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/selling-discourse-theme/71992
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 13, 2017, 7:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selling-discourse-theme/71992 "2017-10-13T07:13:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![WallBB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@WallBB](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WallBB)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2017, 7:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selling-discourse-theme/71992/1 "2017-10-13T07:13:34Z")

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Hi all,  
I had a quick question regarding discourse themes, is it allowed to sell theme created on discourse on 3rd party sites such themeforest etc?  
I am unable to find such information and that is why I wanted to know this.

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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selling-discourse-theme/71992/4 "2017-10-13T12:34:40Z")

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I don’t see why this should be a problem (assuming, obviously, that you have the copyright for the theme you’re selling). 🙂

While Discourse is GPL-licensed which requires derivative works to also be GPL-licensed, I’d say that considering a theme to be a derivative work is pretty far-fetched – most likely, you’re only shipping CSS code and your own assets anyway.  
If you want to be​ 100​ % safe, wait for a reply from someone from _Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc._ on this subject.

I different case could probably be made if your theme included significant portions of (modified) Discourse source code, e.g. handlebars templates.

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### Author: ![WallBB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@WallBB](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WallBB)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selling-discourse-theme/71992/5 "2017-10-13T12:36:58Z")

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Cool 🙂  
Glad to know this, I also don’t know if Themeforest or other websites allow selling discourse theme.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selling-discourse-theme/71992/6 "2019-11-15T10:00:43Z")

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### Author: ![dax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dax/32/244677_2.png) [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selling-discourse-theme/71992/7 "2019-11-15T11:22:06Z")

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