[documentation] [feature] CVS: Update FAQ.txt to clarify the impact of GPL on HTML output

[Robert Castelo]

On 25 Mar 2006, at 09:06, lekei wrote:

> And the part about professionally developed themes was not themes
> developed by professionals, themes that I can buy for a client's site
> (from a template supplier) and tweak for them rather than having to do
> the whole thing from scratch.

Any original graphics used in the theme are covered by copyright, not 
the GPL license. So while code would have to be licensed as GPL, the 
author can use whatever copyright license they prefer for the graphics.

I'd also argue that the CSS file doesn't need to be GPL either, as it 
doesn't need Drupal to function - you could style a non-Drupal site 
with the same CSS file as long as the markup used the same ID and class 
names.

What this means is that it's entirely possible to have commercially 
licensed themes for Drupal, or any other open source product, as long 
as the files which actually contain code are licensed as GPL, the rest 
of the theme can be sold under whatever license the author wants.



Best regards,

Robert