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Hi all, looking for some thoughts. I’ve developed a custom solution for a small business and I think the functionality could be helpful to other businesses following the same model, so I’d like to sell it as a product. However, some key aspects of the functionality depend on other WP plugins that I did not author. How does that impact the legitimacy of my solution as a product? Obviously I would disclose the plugins used, so my product would be more of a packaged solution. Is that allowed?
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Depends on the plugins you’re using. Some enterprise plugins have strong licensing that disallows this without written permission from the company. Best bet, check it out and try requesting permissions; this all can be done by writing to management dept of the plugin publishing company.
You’d have to check the licence agreement for each plugin, to check whether you can effectively “re-sell” or make money from a product which uses those plugins. Most say no, at least not without purchasing rights to do so.
I don’t know how you’d handle the commercial side of using third party plugins either. The easiest solution would be to resell your turnkey solution with no licence keys for commercial plugins, and ask the purchaser to go buy those themselves. But as a customer, if I was asked to do that, I probably wouldn’t bother and would look elsewhere.