Free Drupal Themes Wanted!
Hi!
I'm peach, or Jurriaan, from All Drupal Themes and I'm having some trouble finding good themes to port and release to the community. I've already ported several themes but it turns out there were some problems:
-Apparently people were more interested in 3-column themes
-Some of the themes were not deemed useful at all
-Most good looking themes I find are Creative Commons licensed, which makes sense from the designers point of view, but unfortunately they are not allowed on drupal.org/project/Themes. I was reassured when I signed up for a cvs account that I must not upload CC2.5 licensed themes, only GPL.
I've created this post to communicate with the Drupal community, for whom I make the themes, and hopefully some people have good ideas for themes to be ported to drupal! If anyone has a GPL theme in mind please post it in the comments sections.
If you know of a gorgeous CC licensed design, it's also eligible for a free drupal port but I will put it up with my free drupal themes department but it won't show up on drupal.org/project/Themes.
Looking forward to your input!
JR
Open Source Web Design
Hi JR,
Have a look at http://www.oswd.org/, this site may contain some nice themes where you are looking for.
Regards,
Rob Zimmerman
Laan Negen Internet Consultancy
Ask the designers
When you find a nice CC theme, ask the designer if you can re-license it. Sometimes they use CC just because that's common to use and are willing to GPL it to have it be used with Drupal.
Michelle
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Some suggestions
(My browser crashed just as I was about to submit this. Thank the gods for copy&paste!)
I've no idea how viable these are having never ported anything but here're a few designs that I think would be great for Drupal (the majority are 3 column designs, there's a couple of 2 columns included because they were just so nice):
Wordpress Themes:
Diurnal - License: GNU GPL
Open Source Designs:
Rambling Soul 7 - License: Public Domain
Business Website Template - License: Public Domain - I'd suggest using a more appealing colour scheme and picking a better name.
Blog Style - License: Public Domain - I love this one, and with an alternative colour option it'd be really versatile.
Luka's free templates are all public domain and have been ported to other CMS/Blogs like Joomla and Wordpress. Web Application would be a brilliant one to port and really make use of Drupal blocks, as, I think, would Internet Music.
Six Shooter Media offers some public domain templates, I think Acqueous and Acqueous Light could work well for Drupal, as could Solemnity.
RocketTheme is a Joomla Templates Club but they have two GPL themes: RokWebify and Norvus. Given Joomla's popularity has a fair bit to do with the availability of awesome themes, these are definitely worth consideration for porting.
Creative Commons 2.5:
EcoBusiness and/or Nautica 05 by Studio7 designs.
good finds! Does anyone know
good finds!
Does anyone know any ecommerce templates that are GPL or CC2.5 or something along those lines?
peach from All Drupal Themes!
Maybe this site:
Maybe this site: http://www.easyfreetemplates.com/ecommerce_website_templates.php ???
RokWebify
Funny you should mention RokWebify. I've been working on converting that one. It's about 95% done. I should have it posted in the next few days.
The "Best of Joomla" site has a good collection of theme's in its GNU GPL category.
Is it legal to re-license public domain?
Does anybody know if public domain stuff can be re-licensed under some other license, namely GPL?
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Lupein
Drupal themes - themeartists.com
Re: Is it legal to re-license public domain?
In short, yes, it's legal.
Material released in the public domain is copyright-free and unlicensed. In legal terms, the creator/owner has given up all rights to the material (it's good practice, however, to credit them somewhere anyway).
Just a notice: Releasing
Just a notice:
Releasing something as public domain is only possible in some contrys. In Germany for example it is not possible to give away all your rights to any material you produced. You may licens it as GPL, CC,... and allow other people to do X with it but cannot release it as public domain. In general law is something country specific and also it's not always just the law you could run in. (Take the garland / wordpress story as an example)
SpryDev is planning doing that
I know that SpryDev is plannng to do that - some free themes to contribute to the Drupal Community. We plan to make a number of themes that would be field-oriented rather than generic. Say, Garland is generic, you have to edit it some to adjust it to your field of practice. And we are planning releasing some themes that are alredy adjusted. I have already created and coded one, which is for 5.x with a translation for 6 as well. Company's mnagement is currently reviewing it. You can see that test thme at http://demo.sprydev.com/
Good news, Alexei. If I
Good news, Alexei. If I understand your message right and you guys decide to make some e-commerce related themes, I'd love to be able to link folks to them from the Ubercart downloads or contributions page.
Sorry - these will be Drupal templates =)
Sorry man, these will be Drupal templates.
The Dilectio theme released
The Dilectio theme released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Reflections, etc
As mentioned above, Open Source Web Design (oswd.org) is a great template site. Searching through their 2,000+ templates to find the right one, however, is not much fun.
OSWD has many templates that would make great Drupal themes, but the one that sticks out in my mind right now is Reflections. This theme has no license (technically), and appears to be public domain.
I will certainly post back when I find more good themes for Drupal. Love your site and keep up the great work!