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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.

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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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