Terms and conditions of use

Rule 1

Products and modules provided on DoliStore are submitted by any supplier with an account on platform, with no need to be affiliated to the Dolibarr foundation (this may change in future).

Only modules published under an approved OSI licence, and compatible with the GPL license of Dolibarr if your module is a derivative work (use components or API) of Dolibarr, can be published. The seller must provide all information required by following rules.

Rule 2

Selling price is fixed by the seller. Any sell is however completeley validated only after a delay of 1 month, after the buying date. During this delay, the foundation can cancel transaction for any reason and without notifying the seller (if this occurs, seller will see it into its statistics panel into its seller dashboard area). The foundation keep 20% of amount to pay bank charges or resiliation cost. Remain money will be used to help the promotion of Dolibarr ERP & CRM.

Rule 3

The buyer can not claim anything to the Dolibarr foundation, even if the purchased product does not works correctly. The Dolibarr foundation does not provide any quality tests on products available on the store (except into packaging structure). Any help must be claim using channel defined into description of product, if supplier offer such a support (informartion is mandatory into product description). The foundation can remove a product if there is too many complain about it.

Rule 4

Once payment is received, the buyer can download ordered modules/products files, from its account are "My orders", or from a link available in email received by buyer once its payment is validated.

The product can be downloaded from DoliStore web site during a duration of 1 year after payment.

Rule 5

The seller can send an invoice to the Dolibarr foundation, to received payments of its purchased module/products, 1 month after the purchase (this laps of time is used to cancel the payment at the buyer request). The seller will receive 80% of gains made by the foundation and it total amount is more or equals to 50 euros.

Rule 6

The seller must provide into product description, all mandatory information, this means at least:

* a short description.

* module version

* name of author and licence.

* if help support is available or not, if yes, how. If no support is provided, this must appears.

* the Dolibarr version the module is compatible with (mininum and maximum).

Some links to external documentation/demo can be added, but only into the long description field.

 If something is wrong, or if Dolibarr compatible version is too old, the Dolibarr foundation can remove entry without any other reason.

Rule 7

When several modules, compatible with same version of Dolibarr, are too similar, the foundation reserves the right not to validate the modules submitted after the first, in order to avoid copying and pasting module (possible by the GPL). If a module is not updated within 4 months after the release of a new version of Dolibarr, the foundation will accept the module is published by another vendor (than original author) that had ported the module in the recent version of Dolibarr, in order to avoid that some modules are abandoned. Furthermore, the association may, without warning, disable modules on too old version of Dolibarr.

When and why a payment if software has an Opensource Licence (GPL, ...) ?

Most products available on this market place are free of charge and can be downloaded directly from this market place. No payment is required in this case.

However, some authors decide to charge something to distribute their works. There is no problem to conciliate both approaches (Price to distribute code versus OpenSource licence): The Free Software Foundation, that has created the GNU GPL Licence, one of the most used licence for OpenSource software, allows and encourages this, and provides some explanations on this page :
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html