Licence for Free Add Ons
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I wanted to clarify if a "Free" Add On in the marketplace could be used in a theme for commercial gain eg selling a theme/template on concrete5 or themeforest etc with the free add on as part of the package + attribution.
When I check some of the licences for free add on's they are different, some say :
You own your copy for use on one (1) site and the development environment for it. Use it on another site, you should buy it again. Don't sue us.
Which to me means for every template/theme i sell we have to register a copy each time and as its free where is the logic in that.
and other say:
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software,
Which to me makes more sense for a free add on.
When I check some of the licences for free add on's they are different, some say :
You own your copy for use on one (1) site and the development environment for it. Use it on another site, you should buy it again. Don't sue us.
Which to me means for every template/theme i sell we have to register a copy each time and as its free where is the logic in that.
and other say:
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software,
Which to me makes more sense for a free add on.
Beyond the standard concrete5 license, some of the other licenses chosen by developers include MIT, GPLv2, and Creative Commons. You can visit opensource.org more more information on those.
Best Wishes,
Mike