: Wordpress theme usage rights with GPLv2 I've been searching for a great looking wordpress theme to use on a small magazine website idea that I had and I've just found one that would be ideal,

@Cofer257

The licence is GPL 2.0 which you can read here www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
It is for noncommercial use, which means it can't be used for commercial purposes. You can put adverts but not distribute it commercially (noncommercial distribution is outlined in the licence link above).

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@Murray432

This is confusing because there are 2 pieces of information here that are not intuitive.

First is the license that this theme is distributed under, GLPv2. Short answers is that GPLv2 allows you to modify and distribute as you see fit. You can ready about the specifics here - www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
The second piece of information is the type theme - in this case non-commercial. That means that the theme is not being sold. A commercial theme would have some sort of fee involved - site membership, download fee, support subscription, etc.

The license determines how it can be used, and you can pretty much do what every you want under GPLv2.

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