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The licensing terms don't seem compatible with open source. They're just free (gratis) for many uses though.

You can use the illustrations as you want.

The paragraph from our license which says that you can't use products to create templates, and so on, applies to our templates (containing code), not illustrations.

That's not how the MIT license works though. It says: "Permission is hereby granted, [...] without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software"

I think there are two things though, the illustrations and templates. They are claiming one of those is open source. Not both.

I appreciate the response. As others have noted though, the licensing terms are very hard to parse. Have you considered using one of the Creative Commons licenses for the artwork, with commonly used software licenses for the software pieces?

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