Comments on: Paying For JavaScripts? Just View Source

By: Rahul - Web Guru

Rahul - Web Guru — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:29:23 +0000

I agree with Phil. If you want to sell something in some other site to make some money, then why do u put it for free on your own site?

It simply doesn’t make sense, or does it?

By: Fogtower

Fogtower — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:15:09 +0000

I am fogtower, the author of JSCalendar in ThemeForest.

>which was based on an open source project from around 2006 according to comments in the CSS >files.
You are wrong, in fact, text.css and setup.css are not parts of JSCalendar. They just use to create layout of demo page, make the page looks well, and JSCalendar don’t use them.

>know that this script is freely available from the author’s own site
After I selt JSCalendar in ThemeForest, the source in the my site is comperssed now.

By the way, I also am a professional developer, but I have to sell my product in ThemeForest, because I can’t find better way to sell it. Maybe like jQuery, free use, but need donate.
Now I selt 9 copies in ThemeForest, got less than $30.

By: Russell Heimlich

Russell Heimlich — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:41:48 +0000

It’s ok to sell your themes/code whatever on other sites but you just get a lower percentage of the sale from ThemeForest. I don’t know how they would really enforce that.

By: Phil Rae (NetInspired)

Phil Rae (NetInspired) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:57:07 +0000

I think ThemeForest is aimed at professional developers as there’s no point re-inventing the wheel if someone else has done it – that’s just wasting your own time and your client’s money. However, the fact that this javascript was freely available on the authors website breaks the T&C of ThemeForest, especially as it’s based on open-source code.

But you’re right, it is almost impossible to sell javascripts due to the nature of ‘view source’… but then again, there are people out there who are morally obliging and will be happy to stump up $8 for the work that someone else has put in.