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		<title>Be Specific &#8211; Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India License</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally my first wordpress theme is now is about to release. Today&#8217;s time was invested in searching an open-source license for the same and rest was to convince me to use it. I had no confusion in my mind about themes commercial and non-commercial use. So had two obvious choices.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finally my first wordpress theme is now is about to release. Today&#8217;s time was invested in searching an open-source license for the same and rest was to convince me to use it. I had no confusion in my mind about themes commercial and non-commercial use. So had two obvious choices.</p>
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<li><a title="navigate to GPL v3 page" href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL</a></li>
<li><a title="navigate to Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License Page" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/in/">Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License<span id="more-13"></span></a></li>
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<p>On freenode #cc channel <strong>bringatowel</strong> helped me solve some of my confusions about creative commons licensing. So things are quite clear in my mind now.</p>
<p>Creative Commons is working with IIT Bombay to create India jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. Porting of the version 2.5 documents is completed.</p>
<p>As written on gnu.org about Creative Commons</p>
<blockquote><p>This is a copyleft free license that is good for artistic and entertainment works, and educational works. Please don&#8217;t use it for software or documentation, since it is incompatible with the GNU GPL and with the GNU FDL.</p></blockquote>
<p>GPL could also work well, but as the design and theme creation is more towards <strong>art</strong> I am going to consider Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License. The <strong>attribution</strong> clause of creative commons looks interesting.</p>
<p>Also mentioned on the same page</p>
<blockquote><p>Creative Commons publishes many licenses which are very different. Therefore, to say that a work “uses a Creative Commons license” is to leave the principal questions about the work&#8217;s licensing unanswered. When you see such a statement in a work, please ask the author to highlight the substance of the license choices. And if someone proposes to “use a Creative Commons license” for a certain work, it is vital to ask immediately, “Which one?”</p></blockquote>
<p>So I am being specific over here. We have an answer to <strong>&#8220;which one?&#8221;</strong></p>
<h3><strong>UPDATE</strong> :</h3>
<p>After the introduction of new wordpress theme directory, i am thinking about changing the license to GPL. Now that looks sensible!</p>
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