Illegal software sales by codecanyon.net

you can report regarding this to codecanyom.

The title of this thread needs to be changed. Selling GPL software is not illegal at all. You guys may have heard of a billion dollar company by the name of redhat that does this. Also all wordpress, drupal and open cart extensions and themes are by default gpl so if selling them were illegal they might as well shut down the whole premium website theme/plugin industry.

OpenCart plugins wrote:The title of this thread needs to be changed. Selling GPL software is not illegal at all. You guys may have heard of a billion dollar company by the name of redhat that does this. Also all wordpress, drupal and open cart extensions and themes are by default gpl so if selling them were illegal they might as well shut down the whole premium website theme/plugin industry.

It may not be "illegal" but selling of work of others is in my view Illegal.

Not done or whatever word you want to use.

i2Paq wrote:

OpenCart plugins wrote:The title of this thread needs to be changed. Selling GPL software is not illegal at all. You guys may have heard of a billion dollar company by the name of redhat that does this. Also all wordpress, drupal and open cart extensions and themes are by default gpl so if selling them were illegal they might as well shut down the whole premium website theme/plugin industry.

It may not be "illegal" but selling of work of others is in my view Illegal.

Not done or whatever word you want to use.

It is not illegal, immoral or unethical. If you choose to license your work under the GPL then you choose to allow people to sell your work. Coming back later and saying "no I didn't know this" or "it is illegal" or such BS will not fly. Ignorance is no excuse. If you didn't want people to sell your work you should not have licensed it under the GPL.

It could certainly violate copyright if the license and original author credits were removed. Also CodeCanyon/ThemeForest stated they would prohibit developers/designers from selling GPL software that wasn't their own so that solves the issue definitively in this case.

Not even worth bringing up honestly under GPL. The hopes are that it is removed as a "courtesy".

Yes actually there are now many problems with illegally selling copies of the Export/Import