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What's the deal with Codecanyon and extended licenses?

by pewpewpewmonkeys
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I was needing a wordpress plugin for a particular project when I randomly came across a different plugin. It looked familiar, so I went back and recognized that it was almost the exact same plugin that an IM marketer was selling as an upsale to one of his wp plugins. So I decided to look into THAT plugin, and found that there's another (original) version also sold on codecanyon and the creator of it even admitted that the IM guy had bought an "extended license", adapted it, and repackaged it as his own to sell (at twice the price).

Reading through the extended license this seems to be "legal", but it sure seems like a shitty deal. Just how typical is this? I know people buy plugins on codecanyon to create (bloated) themes to sell on themeforest.

Or perhaps I'm missing something and the person buying and adapting the original version has to buy tons of extended licenses, in which the original creator is banking like crazy?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ron Killian
    Honestly I am with you, the whole license thing can be fuzzy. I thought extended license was just to be able to use it say on as many client sites as you want. I did not think you could do what you want with it?

    I guess it's smart if some one see's a product that could be sold better in a different way. And if they add to it, should be worth more?
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    I thought extended license was just to be able to use it say on as many client sites as you want.
    I think that's everyone's automatic understanding of almost all wordpress related sales where there's a more expensive version. But from what I understand, that's not the case.

    I've always had the suspicion that no one actually pays attention to the license and it only becomes an issue when someone is asking for support on multiple websites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ron Killian
    Oh ya for sure, it's only a problem when you get caught and I doubt many people do. How can you police stuff like that? I see people using paid theme's in thing like plr blogs. Sure they haven't even ponyed up for an an extended license.

    My issue with extended license, least the ones I've looked at, is that they are HUGELY expensive! You could hire a designer to make something 100% unique and still have some change left in your pocket. Not like your getting an exclusive.
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