Title: is this full opensource ?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# is this full opensource ?

 *  [doso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doso/)
 * (@doso)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-full-opensource/)
 * Hallo i´m new in copiright questions. My question simply is : it is possible 
   to customize and change the themecode to create a commercial one? Thanks a lot!!!

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-full-opensource/#post-3583441)
 * You can change any code in any theme distributed on WordPress.org because these
   themes run under [GPL](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) (license).
 *  Thread Starter [doso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doso/)
 * (@doso)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-full-opensource/#post-3583442)
 * and i create a commercial one ( of course not similar to the original one) or
   i go against law?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-full-opensource/#post-3583443)
 * > and i create a commercial one
 * > You can change any code in any theme distributed on WordPress.org

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