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What a commercial-use license actually covers

Plain language on what commercial use means on a WebTemps template, what you can resell, and the small set of things you cannot.

2026-10-10 ยท Back to blog

Template licenses are written for lawyers, which is why nobody reads them, which is why half the questions I get in email are license questions. Here is the plain language version for WebTemps, with the edges I know people worry about.

What commercial use means on a WebTemps template

You buy a template for five dollars. You download the zip. You can use the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images and fonts packaged with that template on any site you build for yourself or for a paying client. One license, one project at a time. You can modify any part of the files to fit the project. You can keep the files on disk and use them again on your next project. There is no per site, per server, or per domain limit baked into the price.

The two percent of things you cannot do

You cannot repackage the template files and resell them as a template. That is the one hard rule, because reselling the same files as a competing template is the only thing that would hurt the shop. Everything else is fair game. You can resell a site you built using the template to a client. You can hand the files to a client at the end of a project. You can keep them on an internal archive and reuse them across jobs you bill.

You cannot use the files on more than one site at a time for different end clients from a single purchase. If you are building for ten clients, buy ten licenses. At five dollars each that is fifty dollars across ten projects, which is the price of one marketplace file, so nobody has ever pushed back on this.

What about the fonts and photos

Google Fonts included in a template are MIT or SIL Open Font Licensed, which means you keep using them without extra steps. Stock photography used in the demo is placeholder only and the demo zip includes attribution notes where needed. Replace the demo images with your own or your client's. You should not ship the demo photography to production, which is a rule most marketplace licenses also carry.

Open source libraries bundled in

Every template bundles common libraries, Bootstrap, Owl Carousel, Font Awesome Free, jQuery, that are MIT or similarly permissive. Those keep their original licenses and the attribution lives in the headers of their files. You do not need to add anything to your production build.

What a client ends up owning

When you hand a site over to a client, the client owns the resulting work and the right to keep operating that site. If the client wants to use the same template on a second site of their own, they should buy a second license. The simplest way is to add a line in your handover that says the five dollar template was licensed through your account, and that any future use needs its own license. Clients mostly do not mind. The number is small enough to be in the noise.

Where this differs from a marketplace

Marketplaces split licenses into regular and extended tiers, where the regular tier blocks you from building a site that sells access, and the extended tier is five to ten times the price. WebTemps does not split the license. One five dollar purchase covers the project. If you are selling access or subscriptions on the site you build, that is still fine under the same license. The marketplace extended tier exists to monetise edge cases, and the catalog here does not need to.

If you are still unsure

Email [email protected] with the project description. One operator reads the inbox and replies the same day. For the pricing side of the picture, the pricing page covers how the per license cost sits inside a full project budget, and the catalog is where you pick the file.

Grab a template

Every HTML template on WebTemps is a flat five dollars with instant email delivery. Open the catalog or see the pricing page.