A plain-language summary of the two licences a theme is sold under. The binding terms ship with the release itself, and the theme page states which licence covers what before anything is paid.
One licence, one published website. Work you deliver to clients is the studio licence. Change anything you like, and do not resell the theme itself.
A theme licence grants the right to build and publish websites using the theme source. It is granted to one person or one organisation, and it is not transferable on its own.
There are two, and what separates them is the number of published projects and who they are for — never the files. Both licences deliver the same complete source, and nothing in a theme is gated, withheld or unlocked by an upgrade.
Bought on a theme page, it covers one published website: yours, or your own organisation’s. A second site needs a second licence, whichever theme it uses.
It does not cover work delivered to a client. Building a site someone else pays you for is what the studio licence is for, and it is the honest line between the two — a theme priced for one person should not be the price of an agency’s year.
One licence across the whole collection, for client work without a project limit. It covers every theme published at the time of purchase, and everything released for twelve months afterwards.
What those twelve months buy is the flow of new releases, not continued access: every theme it has already given you stays yours, under this licence, for good. Nothing expires, nothing is revoked, and no site stops working. It is not a subscription, and there is nothing to cancel.
Its price rises as the collection grows — by a fixed step for every ten themes added — and the price you paid is the price of what you received. A licence bought at nine themes is not re-priced at fifty.
The finished website, including the modified theme source inside it, can be handed over to the client as part of the project. That is the intended use of the studio licence.
What does not transfer is the licence itself. The client receives a website. They do not receive the right to build further sites from the theme, and neither do their other suppliers.
You may modify anything: layouts, components, tokens, copy, structure. There is no obligation to keep any part of the original design, and no attribution requirement in the page output.
Modified or not, the source remains under the same licence. Rewriting a theme does not create a new work you are free to redistribute.
Reselling, sublicensing or redistributing the theme source, in whole or in substantial part, is not permitted. Neither is publishing it to a public repository, packaging it into another template or product, or offering it as part of a site-builder library.
Using the theme to produce websites for others is the intended use. Using it to produce another theme for others is not.
Demo images, fonts and icons shipped with a theme are covered by their own licences, which are listed with each release. Some demo assets are licensed for preview only and are not cleared for production use.
Where an asset cannot be redistributed, the theme ships a placeholder and the release notes say what it stands in for.
Bought as a consumer, a licence can be withdrawn from within 14 days of purchase, with no reason needed and a full refund, for as long as the theme has not been downloaded. Write to studio@quaeris-design.com with your order number.
Delivery starts on the download page, and only once you tick a box asking for it and acknowledging that downloading ends your right of withdrawal (French Consumer Code, article L221-28 13°). From the first download the theme has been delivered, and the right of withdrawal no longer applies. A purchase made for professional activity — client work under the studio licence, typically — carries no right of withdrawal.
If a theme does not do what its page says it does, that is a defect and it will be handled as one.