Hi Everyone. I'm Lance Snider from Envato. Hopefully I can shed some light on the reasoning behind this decision. Either way, I really appreciate the feedback.
1. What is the extended license for
The most common use of the extended license is to put it in an end product that will be sold, like a game, app, or even a magazine. That said, we wanted to give theme authors more options when developing and photo authors another type of potential client.
2. Is there a potentially infinite loop of EL's
No. Because the item must be incorporated into a larger project, the chain can only go so far. For example, if you put a photo in a flyer, that's it. You can't really take a flyer and make it into a 'larger project.' This infinite loop was something we were super worried about so we tried to come up with as many hypotheticals as we could. The longest string we could come up with was 3, but even that was super rare.
3. Extracting the photos
As was mentioned earlier in the thread, you couldn't pull the photos out of a flyer template and use them on their own or in other project.
4. Using photos in template previews, but not the download
There are cases where an author will use a photo in the preview, but not the download. We give authors 2 options. 1) Buy the photo, but link to where it can be purchased in the documentation. As long as you purchase the item, I don't know of any stock photo site that requires you to credit the author in a single-use situation like this. 2) Use the watermarked version and link back to the author. We did this to help cross-promote things like photos on popular files from ThemeForest and the other sites.
5. Opting out
We definitely understand that the license isn't perfect for everyone. That's why we've included the ability to opt out.
I wasn't 100% clear whether the issue was the price or that this option exists at all. For example, if it were much more expensive, would you still opt out to avoid your files being used in this way?
I'll be very interested to hear your comments!
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