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1.7. Concept: Drupal Licensing for Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11

What is Drupal Licensing?

Drupal and all contributed files hosted on Drupal.org are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later. That means you are free to download, reuse, modify, and distribute any files that are part of a project on Drupal.org under the terms of GPL version 2 or 3. You can also run the core software in combination with any code with any license that is compatible with version 2 or 3.

Drupal contributors should follow these guidelines:

  • All files (PHP, JavaScript, images, Flash, etc.) that are part of a project on Drupal.org have to be under GPL version 2 or later.
  • All Drupal contributors retain copyright on their code, but agree to release it under the same license as Drupal.
  • Drupal modules and themes are a derivative work of Drupal. If you distribute them, you must do so under the terms of GPL version 2 or later.
  • All content on Drupal.org itself is copyrighted by its original contributors, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license 2.0.
  • Sample code on Drupal.org is also available under GPL version 2 or later.

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