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- Bought between 50 and 99 items
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Exclusive Author
Basically, I’ve made a shopping cart that works great with a lot of themes. Only thing is, it doesn’t exactly style up to a lot of them. While I’ve fixed this on the themes I own (very few! All of Parallelus themes, Seventeen (by Alex Pascal), several orman clarks), but there are many that remain.
My question is, is it allowed for an author to send me a copy of their theme for the sole purpose of making sure it works with my plugin and so I can style my plugin for their theme (when their theme is active)?
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Won a Competition
- Author was Featured
- Item was Featured
- Referred between 500 and 999 users
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
why it shouldn’t ? great feature btw.
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Free distribution is not allowed afaik
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Won a Competition
- Author was Featured
- Item was Featured
- Referred between 500 and 999 users
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
MelforDMThemes saidIt’s not free distribution if he’s not going to use the theme for anything else that making his plugin compatible.
Free distribution is not allowed afaik
Both items would still be sold here, both authors could benefit so why should Envato have something against it ?
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- Exclusive Author
MelforDMThemes said
Free distribution is not allowed afaik
You probably have a support guy with DMThemes, right? You give him your themes for free so he can provide support? Same thing, I believe.
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LandonWilson said
MelforDMThemes saidYou probably have a support guy with DMThemes, right? You give him your themes for free so he can provide support? Same thing, I believe.
Free distribution is not allowed afaik
Actually I am the support girl for DMThemes, but the situation is different. I work for them. From your point of view the developer of DMThemes would have to actually buy the PSD the designer of DMThemes made to develop the WP version?
Some random guy who developed a plugin does not work for any author, that’s not comparable.
All the best
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Won a Competition
- Author was Featured
- Item was Featured
- Referred between 500 and 999 users
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
To give for free = distributing the theme to people who will use it without paying
that’s simply not the case here.
- Bought between 1 and 9 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
I’m curious about an official answer 
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- Author was Featured
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
if the theme’s author send you a copy of their theme it’s mean the author give you permission to test your plugin with their work – so, i think that’s fine
my 2 cents
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- Bought between 50 and 99 items
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Exclusive Author
This should answer my question:
Q: Do I retain the rights to my own file? A: Yes, it’s your file. We just provide a venue to sell it.
