Downloads and Licensing
The way we sell downloads is a little different than some other extensions sites, so here's the detail on what we offer, and what you get.
Here at Les Arbres, we are always working on something. People are always sending us good ideas, and while we make no commitment whatsoever to do anything at all, we often do add new functionality to our extensions. So for our non-free products we offer a choice of payment options that include more, or less, upgrade options.
Downloads
When you buy downloads from us, you buy a number of downloads, valid for a length of time. For example, when you buy Plotalot, you can buy 5 downloads in 30 days, or 20 downloads over 2 years.
If you take the 5 download option, you could, for example, use your downloads to immediately download the plotalot plugin and the paid version of the component. That would cost you 2 of your 5 downloads. You then have 3 downloads left, valid for 30 days. You might then come back later, take a look at the version histories, and decide you would like to download a new version of the plugin. That would cost you another download, leaving you with two left. After your 30 days have expired, you can no longer download, even if you had not used up all of your downloads.
Which option you choose to buy depends on how important the extension is to your site, how likely you think it is that we will add new functionality that is useful to you in the future, and whether or not you intend to upgrade to new versions of Joomla. All we can say to help your decision is that the more people buy our products and support our efforts, the more work we will put into them. Our version histories are completely public, so you can get a good idea of how active each product is.
Licensing
All our Joomla extensions are Free Open Source Software. In this context, "free" refers to the freedom to copy and re-use the software, and not to the price of the software. Basically, you are allowed to use it in any way you like, for as long as you like, on as many systems as you like.
We use the GNU General Public License, which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software. Any developers who try to restrict these freedoms are not complying with the GPL and cannot advertise their extensions on the Joomla Extensions Directory. There is more information about that here.
The only thing we ask of you is that you do not make our paid works publicly available. That would severely reduce our ability to sell them, which would destroy our incentive to continue to develop and support them. That would help no-one. So far, this arrangement appears to be generally understood and respected for Free Open Source Software.
We are allowed to apply copyright to our documentation and to restrict your rights to copy, duplicate, or redistribute it. Please respect the copyright of our documentation.
