Title: creative commons
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# creative commons

 *  [mikek1357](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikek1357/)
 * (@mikek1357)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creative-commons/)
 * Can I edit a theme that’s under the creative common’s licence?
 * Thanks,
 * Mike

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 *  [haochi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haochi/)
 * (@haochi)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creative-commons/#post-745388)
 * Depends on the license, most likely you can, unless the theme includes “No Derivative”
   in its license. It’s always a good idea to ask the original author if you are
   not sure.
 *  Thread Starter [mikek1357](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikek1357/)
 * (@mikek1357)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creative-commons/#post-745550)
 * It actually is the cutline 2.1 theme I want to edit, but I can’t get hold of 
   an email adress of either Chris Pearson or David Peralty.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creative-commons/#post-745553)
 * There is no such thing as “creative common’s license” _in general_. There are
   different CC licenses – and the one comes with that theme says clearly: **Attribution-
   ShareAlike 2.5**.
    You can read about here, too: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/)
 * (no need to contact anybody)
 *  [phoenixd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phoenixd/)
 * (@phoenixd)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creative-commons/#post-745593)
 * David here,
 * Yes, you can edit cutline all you’d like. We did the CC licensing because we 
   wanted our attribution link to stay in and also to give us a bit more control
   over the theme.
 * Go crazy modding it though, and let me know what you do.

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