As some of you by now know, I've started a template site. However, I haven't yet formalized the license I want to distribute my templates under.

I want people to be able to:

• Modify the templates if they want
• Be able to redistribute the modified versions, as long as this is done for free and link credit is given
• Be allowed to use the template on a commercial or non-commercial site, but as I said, not resold.
• Maintain a link to my site, unless they've paid a small fee to remove this.

If you're looking at the site right now, you'll see it contradicts itself as I haven't updated everything yet and I'm unsure what license to put. I've looked at the Creative Commons license but they don't seem to fit the requirements I've just mentioned.

Dan

It sounds like a creative commons license is what you would want, have you looked at a 2.5 attribute license?
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/legalcode (legal code)

Thanks for that. However, it seems like that license allows people to resell the work as much as they like, and I don't want my work being resold

There's a concept starting to be known as "linktrobution" - older licenses you can stipulate "attribution required" (Template by Dan Price) but people are starting to recognize the desire for that attribution to come in the form of a link.

I wonder what Google thinks? I saw something on Matt Cutts blog were someone had submitted reinclusion requests where he had a contest telling people to enter they had to link to him, and he spelled out the different anchor text they're allowed to use. Plus he bought and sold links and talked about it lots on Digital Pointless. So there are a lot of factors he did to tick Big G Daddy off, but you might look into that before you decide.

Do they speak US-English in Mid-Wales? British English has licence (n) and license (v(t)). On a point of technicality though the actual licence names should keep the letter they were created with...

What a mad world it is

Its not really the search engine benefit I'm after, it's the visitors. I want to get into web design and I think having a single link to my site would get me some interested visitors and jobs.

No it's not me speaking US-English (well I misspelt it), but my dictionary didn't help! I've got to find some scapegoat! Lol

Has anyone else got any ideas considering that I don't really want anyone to resell my templates and the Creative Commons licence allows for this?

Yes, I agree

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

There's a concept starting to be known as "linktrobution" - older licenses you can stipulate "attribution required" (Template by Dan Price) but people are starting to recognize the desire for that attribution to come in the form of a link.

I wonder what Google thinks? I saw something on Matt Cutts blog were someone had submitted reinclusion requests where he had a contest telling people to enter they had to link to him, and he spelled out the different anchor text they're allowed to use. Plus he bought and sold links and talked about it lots on Digital Pointless. So there are a lot of factors he did to tick Big G Daddy off, but you might look into that before you decide.

Would it be too much work to create your own? I mean, if there's not one out there that fits your specific needs, you should have one tailored for your project and needs.

Thanks Kimberly - I think I might do that

Probably worth running it past someone like a solicitor friend - you don't want to find out there's a loophole once your work has been copied/sold on etc etc