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by mdasen 1703 days ago
This looks really cool. I can't find anything on your website about any license that the templates are offered under. I'd love to use this, but I know the first thing that people at my work are going to ask me is how the content is licensed. It's possible that it's somewhere and I'm just not seeing it.

The ToS says:

> Nothing in this Agreement grants any right, title or interest in or to (including any license under) any Intellectual Property Rights in or relating to the Software

Are the templates part of "the Software" and so I don't have any license to the templates? I'm not allowed "to access the source code of the Software...or create derivative works based on the Software" so am I allowed to modify the the source code of the templates and use that?

I kinda know that you don't mean that I can't use the templates. I just know that I'm going to get hit with the "can we really use these". Maybe my place is too worried about stuff, but I'm a little surprised that there isn't terms of use or a license around the templates. Are they public domain?

Bee Plugin looks awesome, but I'd love to know what the situation is around the templates given that I know I'm going to be asked that.

Also, just as an FYI, the editor launches with the copyright notice showing MailUp and it looks like you're now Growens.

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Thanks for the note and for your interest in what we do! You can use the templates freely to design emails and pages on beefree.io. If you want to embed our visual builders in your application (i.e. you want to use BEE Plugin), and you also want to create a template catalog within your application, you can purchase our template catalog (all of it or a portion of it). I would recommend getting in touch with our team for that so that they can give you all the details: https://beefree.io/get-in-touch/ Thanks again!
The problem here is that I don't know what the limits are to communicate them to others.

In the UI, I can design a free email and export it. The UI doesn't allow me to remove the BEE attribution, but I could easily remove it after exporting. Is that allowed? Am I allowed to modify the design outside of the beefree.io interface?

If we're offering a product that sends emails for people, can I build a generic email off one of the templates and use that for each client?

Your question seems to be along the line of "you do know I can use this to make money for free?"

Their goal as I understand it is "yes, but we will make it so cool and easy and reliable after a while you will want to pay for the extra to make even more money"

Yes, absolutely.