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This is excellent! And the license is on the home page: "MIT License: Use it on commercial or personal projects. Every design component we use to create our products can be downloaded for free under MIT License."

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But ... under "Licenses" in the footer it says:

"There are some things you can't do:

-You can’t use our products to create Templates, UI Kits, Dashboards, Themes and Plugins that are distributed on your website or other marketplaces and they do direct competition to us.

-You can’t deliver our source code to the general public through Open Source Projects without our written consent.

-You can’t use our products to create website/app generators.

-You can’t redistribute or resell our products source files as they are."

It's a bit confusing.

I think paragraph (5) of https://www.creative-tim.com/license?ref=iradesign-footer applies here "There can be different components in some of our Items that can have a separate License from this one, and other license terms may apply to that specific component. Usually, those components come with a Free and Open Source MIT License."

No worries! You can use the illustrations as you want. You can just give credits if 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.

Wait... what? The MIT license applies only to the illustrations? The MIT license is specifically a software license and doesn't really work for illustrations, except to the extent that they make up the software's associated documentation. Can you elaborate what this means? I would have expected exactly the opposite: that the code is MIT licensed and the illustrations are under your custom license. The reverse is a very bizarre arrangement.

It seems to me that the MIT license isn't really involved at all here. It can't apply to standalone illustrations, because MIT is a software license, and you're not open sourcing the code. What, specifically, is MIT licensed here?

For illustrations you want something like Creative Commons. Those licenses are not software-specific like MIT is.

> and you're not open sourcing the code. What, specifically, is MIT licensed here?

Considering the Artwork is SVG, it seems like the SVG code of the artwork is under MIT

I'd recommend looking into known licenses like the Creative Commons license set for the artwork. For the software part of your product check the most used open source licenses, including the copyleft ones if you want to keep the option to negotiate commercial deals.

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