Use code from bundled themes in my theme and resell it

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Since a while I have started comparing frameworks for wordpress in order to understand the way wordpress works.

Now that I understand the code more clearly, I have compared it to the twentythirteen and twentyfourteen themes bundled with wordpress.

I came to understand that quite alot of the code seems to be the same, apart from the functions they all seem to use and call for.

Can I do the same thing, using code from those themes?

I’m sorry if this question has already been asked before, just didnt see it anywhere on this site…

Any suggestions to this issue?

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Themes bundled with WordPress are licensed under “GPLv2 or any later version” in full (both code and assets).

You can reuse and resell that code, as long as you abide by the GPL license, effectively meaning — resulting product’s code (and assets if you use them) must be under either of:

  • GPLv2 or later
  • GPLv2 strict
  • GPLv3

with all the implications of.

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