### What license do themes need to have for distribution?
-Could someone specify what license the themes need to have to get distributed in ikiwiki or Debian? The current included theme seem to be under the GPLv2. Does the [Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) also work. This way a lot of free CSS templates could be included, e. g. from [freecsstemplates.org](http://www.freecsstemplates.org/).
+Could someone specify what license the themes need to have to get
+distributed in ikiwiki or Debian? The current included theme seem to be
+under the GPLv2. Does the [Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
+License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) also work. This way a
+lot of free CSS templates could be included, e. g. from
+[freecsstemplates.org](http://www.freecsstemplates.org/). --PaulePanter
+
+> Paule, I'd love it if you did that! The only hard requirement on themes
+> included in ikiwiki is that they need to be licensed with a [DFSG
+> compatable license](https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses). CC-BY-SA 3.0
+> is DFSG; CC-BY is apparently being accepted by Debian too.
+>
+> As a soft requirement, I may exersise some discretion about themes that
+> require obtrusive attributions links be included on every page of a
+> site using the theme. While probably DFSG, that adds a requirement
+> that ikiwiki itself does not require. --[[Joey]]
+
+### Once one has enabled the 'theme' plugin in the setup file, how does one use themes?
+
+Choose one of the [[themes]] which are bundled with ikiwiki and configure ikiwiki to use it by setting this in your setup file, eg.
+
+ theme => 'blueview',
+
+-- [[AdamShand]]
+
+
+### How to enable properly?
+
+So I added "theme" to my config file's "add_plugins" directive, and uncommented the "theme: actiontabs" line. I then ran "ikwiki --setup wiki.setup" and... no change on reload.
+
+I'm on Ubuntu 16.04. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? --[[STrRedWolf]]
+
+### my theming issue solved.
+
+take a look at [How to use themes?](http://ikiwiki.info/forum/How_to_use_themes__63__/) --[[azzamsa]]