Sometimes, a professional development company will be in a position where they themselves have source code licensing rights for AspDotNetStorefront.
Under set conditions, such development companies are eligible to use their own licensed source code to make changes on behalf of their client but when this
happens the raw, modified source code CANNOT BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE CLIENT unless the client has Source Code licensing rights.
(The development company can
change the recipe and give you the new cake to enjoy, but they can't share the new recipe. That remains theirs.)
While this policy saves a store-owner from the
cost of taking out Source Code licensing rights, it also means that they no longer have access to their own 'recipe' and if they want to keep working on that new cake,
then they have to keep working with the team that owns the recipe.
It also means that in the event of a corporate buy-out, (or if something goes wrong and you want
to stop working with your development company) the recipe remains irretrievably tied to a third party.
Any store-owner who finds himself in the position of using modified source code,
and yet not having licensing rights for Source should approach AspDotNetStorefront for help.
As of AspDotNetStorefront v9.x, we no longer recognize the version of
AspDotNetStorefront which rolled source code as a free part of the deliverable. Unless there is proof of actual purchase of separate source code, we ask that you re-invest. The 'free'
version was stopped more than eight years ago and is unrecognizable, so this seems fair.