# 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")\
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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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