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We definitely DO NOT WANT to control your business. Surely you can sell whatever you want using your X-Cart licenses. However, business is not only products you sell, it also includes your brand, domain name, company name, customer base and so on. Apple started as a company that created personal computers and now they sell phones. But it is still Apple.
X-Cart license provides customers with the right to use our software for one project/shop. In the most of cases changing URL after live registration means that new project has been completed and launched. Thatâ–“s why we are giving the right to change license URL once free of charge and making further URL changes payable.
So, when you are still on the same domain you can do whatever you want without any extra license charge as you did before. But when you decide to start a new project/shop on new domain using the same license for the shop, you should pay for the license renewal.
Everyone here wants X-Cart to improve, add new features into new releases, improve security and so on. At the same time community re-uses X-Cart licenses (given to built one shop originally) for new and new projects, using all our new work with no benefit to us. If we keep going like this, it means stagnation of X-Cart, which I believe nobody here wants.
We are not going to restrict licenses reselling or transferring. If you transfer a license without URL change it will not require any license renewal charge. Meanwhile, we are always ready to help with any non-standard situation, just contact us and we will find a solution for you.
PS. regarding this terms -
http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=65877 - we do not allow to use our forum as marketplace for license selling, but we do not forbid reselling X-Cart licenses at all.