License similar to the MIT license but without the ability to sell? [closed]

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I'm trying to decide how I want to license my Wordpress themes to the public. I know that the GPL is recommended to Wordpress theme creators, however I feel it might not be liberal enough for me because I want businesses to be able to use them if they want to. I really like the MIT license, the only thing that gets me is the freedom to sell part. I don't want someone taking my themes and selling them on some theme farm site, they should be free for everyone, however I don't want to require them to republish any changes under the MIT as well, I think that that freedom should remain intact.

Is there a license that sort of fits into the terms I specified here? I'm not a lawyer so I have trouble reading through the complicated language of licenses. To clarify, I don't care if the license is GPL compatible, but the GNU GPL license is not what I want. If there is not a similar license to the MIT but with the terms I have specified, should I just license under a modified MIT? If so, can anyone help me write it? Thanks very much!

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You could just take the MIT licence and add an overriding clause which prevents selling or sub-licencing the product for money.

Or you could take that licence to someone who knows about licensing and get them to do it. In other words, a lawyer type, not a tech type.

Any advice from non-lawyers will be worth exactly the amount of money they put towards their law degree at University :-)

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Creative Commons is the most popular for non-GPL themes from what I've seen. With CC-nc-sa (non-commercial, share-alike) it keeps people from reselling them, but makes them redistributable.

EDIT: Also, you can dictate what "attribution" means. It might just mean leaving a comment inside the theme's PHP files.