Developing a theme from another theme

Hi,

I want to start developing WordPress websites for clients. I have been doing it for myself for years for my own companies, friends etc but now wanted to go “more professional”. Previously I have often started with a theme template as a base and then developed it from there to save some time for the basic setup stuff, and just focus more on the user specific needs.

Would this be considered ok from both a moral and legal point of view if I develop a theme for clients for money? I.e., take another theme as a base (say Hello theme or Astra) and then develop it to a completely new solution. And in this process then of course change all the names to my own company name and remove stuff like Hello or Astra from the files, therefore not giving credit to the base code.

If it would be considered wrong, what solution would you suggest to speed up the process of setting up the basics? Of course I could create something from scratch and use as a template, but I would rather save me those 100s of hours 🙂

• This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Everything else WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic