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Ask HN: If you build your $1B company on an HTML template, will you be sued?
Say you start off in your pyjamas in your lounge room eating toast and writing code.
You buy a template from, for arguments sakes, ThemeForest or WrapBootstrap.
You code and code and code until your masterpiece is complete.
People LOVE what you built. Within a year Bill Zuckerberg-Ellison buys your company for $1B.
Might you get a letter from the template designer saying "hang on that's my IP and you sold it now I want $500M"?
- byoung2 11y agoThemeforest templates have a license that states what you can do with it, so you would be fine if you were within the terms of the license. That said, you could easily change an HTML template to something custom long before any acquisition if you wanted to avoid the issue.
- icedchai 11y agoThis would be a nice problem to worry about.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoThis is why every developer should not just read but understand the licenses to everything they use. In my experience very few actually do.
- petercooper 11y agoIt depends if Hooli designed your template.