Standard or exclusive license

When publishing, the seller chooses how the template is sold: standard or exclusive. Standard sells as many times as its author wants and stays in the catalogue. Exclusive sells once only and the buyer keeps the sale exclusivity: the seller undertakes not to sell, license or publish it again, neither on Bernuvia nor on any other platform. The usage rights over the code are the same in both modes.

1. 1The first step of the Sell wizard is License type: two cards, Standard license and Exclusive license, each with what it implies.
2. 2The rest of the wizard is identical either way. If you chose exclusive, the file step and the summary on the right remind you before you publish.
3. 3When you edit the template the step is still there, but switched off: you see which one you chose and the other card is dimmed, because the decision is already made.

Selling only once is not a promise written on the page: three separate gates in the platform hold it up.

• It is reserved. Once someone else's purchase is on record, everyone else is told the template is unavailable. The check runs again when quoting, when creating the order and before signing a deposit, so a second payment cannot slip through.
• It leaves the catalogue. The first acquisition deactivates it: a paid purchase. From then on it is neither listed nor purchasable.
• It is never listed again. That is what the Terms say, and there is no screen or process that puts it back into the catalogue, not even a refund. And the seller further undertakes not to sell, license or publish it again on any other platform or channel.
• The buyer keeps everything. Their download, their purchase in My purchases and their 24 hours dispute window are those of any other purchase.
• The seller sees it deactivated. It appears in My templates with the inactive chip. The sale, the payout and the release of the payment follow the normal path of any order.

What you may do with the code does not depend on the way it was sold: it is set by clause 17 of the Terms, the same for both, and every template is sold with one price and one license. What the exclusive mode does change is the sale exclusivity: the usage scope is not widened, but that template is never sold anywhere again.

• What you may do (17.2): a perpetual, worldwide license to download the code, modify it freely, deploy it, build End Products with it for yourself or for your clients and charge for your development work. Your users' access to that End Product may be free or paid.
• What you may never do (17.3): resell, redistribute or make the template available as such, inside another template or tool, even if you modified it when the result is still essentially the same template, even for free, or publish it again on Bernuvia as if it were yours.
• What exclusivity adds (17.4): the sale exclusivity. Nobody else will buy it on Bernuvia, and the seller undertakes not to sell, license, distribute or publish it again on any other platform or channel. The usage rights in the two points above do not change.