License confusion is the single most common source of support questions for any template product, and it's rarely about the template's design — it's about what the buyer is actually legally allowed to do with the files afterward. Understanding the standard clauses before buying avoids both underusing a license you already paid for and, more importantly, using a template in a way that violates it.
| Clause | What it typically means |
|---|---|
| Single-use vs. unlimited use | Single-use covers one project per license purchased; unlimited covers any number of your own or client projects |
| Personal vs. commercial | Personal use excludes any project intended to generate revenue, directly or indirectly; commercial permits business/client use |
| Client/reselling rights | Whether you can use the template on projects you're paid to build for other people, distinct from using it on your own site |
| Attribution requirement | Whether a visible credit link back to the template creator is legally required, and whether it can be removed for a fee or higher tier |
| Modification rights | Whether you can edit the template's code freely, versus a license that only permits using it largely as-is |
The line isn't always where people assume. A portfolio site for a freelancer that includes a "hire me" contact form is commercial use, even though no product is being sold directly on the page — the site exists to generate paid work. A hobby blog with no monetization, ads, or business purpose is personal use. When genuinely unsure which category a project falls into, the safer assumption is commercial, since most license disputes arise from treating a business-adjacent project as personal use.
Using a template on your own commercial site and using it on a project you're paid to build for a client are often covered by different license tiers, even under the same "commercial" umbrella term. Some licenses cover one client project per purchase; others cover unlimited client projects under a single license. If you do freelance or agency work regularly, an unlimited-client license, even at a higher upfront price, is usually the better long-term value — tracking and repurchasing single-project licenses per client adds real administrative overhead as project volume grows.
UIXDraft includes an unlimited commercial license with every purchase — use it on your own sites and on any number of client projects, no per-project repurchase, no attribution required.
See the Templates →Almost every commercial template license draws a hard line here: using a template to build websites (for yourself or clients) is covered, but reselling the template files themselves — as a template, marketed as a template — is not, even under an "unlimited commercial use" license. This distinction trips up some buyers who assume "commercial" means any commercial use whatsoever, including reselling the source product. If reselling the template itself (not a site built from it) is the goal, that requires an explicitly different license tier, which most standard template licenses don't include.
License violations are a civil, not criminal, matter, but the consequences are still real: a copyright holder can request the site be taken down, request retroactive payment for the correct license tier, or in more serious cases pursue damages, particularly for clear reselling violations. In practice, most disputes are resolved by correcting the license (buying the tier that should have been purchased originally) rather than escalating further — but the risk and hassle of a dispute is easily avoided by reading the license terms once before starting a project, rather than after a question comes up.
It depends on the specific license. Some template licenses cover a single project per purchase; others include unlimited use across any number of client projects. Check this specifically before assuming — it's the most common point of confusion.
Depends on the license tier. Free or discounted licenses often require visible attribution; paid commercial licenses more commonly remove that requirement. Always check the specific license terms rather than assuming based on price alone.
Almost never under a standard commercial license — that license covers building websites with the template, not reselling the template files themselves as a product. Reselling the template itself requires an explicitly different license type most standard purchases don't include.