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Have you ever submitted a theme to ThemeForest? They require you to place the two licenses in your submission and will reject your submission if they're missin
by noodle 14y ago
Have you ever submitted a theme to ThemeForest? They require you to place the two licenses in your submission and will reject your submission if they're missing or altered.
Author certainly can do whatever they want; Themeforest will just reject the submission until the author does what they want.
- ars 14y agoNo, I have never submitted anything there. But it makes little difference: You can say whatever you want on your website, and give any license you like. They have no say in the matter - they aren't getting an exclusive license after all. The author is free to provide a second license to anyone they like.
- noodle 14y agoThat is true, sort of. If you don't sell exclusively on Themeforest, the payout rate is approximately half what it would be otherwise. Its a very similar rock-and-hard-place situation that this article is about. You're throwing away significant revenue by selling on your own site and generally not accepting their license agreement because they are the king in the market.
- ars 14y agoI didn't realize they had an exclusivity clause. If that's the case then, yah, the author is kinda stuck.
- noodle 14y agoIts not quite a standard clause -- you do have the choice to sell exclusively or non-exclusively. Non-exclusive cut for the author is 33% and exclusive cut is 50-70%. Its a pretty substantial difference, especially if you make a lot more sales on Themeforest than you do on your own site. You have a choice, you just don't really have a choice IF you're trying to make your living on selling themes.