Licensing

What we make

We make two kinds of products. Our WordPress products are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (GPL-2.0-or-later), the same licence as WordPress itself. These are free:

• Ariade, an accessibility-ready full site editing block theme, together with the blank Ariade Child starter theme that ships with it.
• Ariade Header and Menu and Ariade Demo, the two helper plugins for the theme (accessible header and menu, sitemap, and one-click demo content).
• The Ananyoo accessibility plugins: Accessible Forms, Accessible Carousel, Accessible Login, Accessible Portfolio, Accessible Events and Accessible A to Z Index. See the plugins hub for all of them.

Ariade Pro, an optional paid add-on plugin for Ariade, is covered by the same GPL licence. See Free Ariade and paid Ariade Pro below.

Our store themes are paid and come with a single-store licence, explained further down this page:

• Ariade for Shopify, an accessible Shopify theme built to WCAG 2.2 AA.
• Ariade for BigCommerce, an accessible BigCommerce theme built to WCAG 2.2 AA.

WordPress products: the GPL licence

Ariade WordPress Theme, Copyright 2026 Shivaji Mitra (M/S. Anblik). Ariade is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later. The same copyright notice and licence apply to each plugin named above.

Under the GPL you may use the software on any number of sites, for any purpose, including client work and commercial sites. You may study and change the code, and you may share the original or your changed version with others, as long as it stays under the GPL. The full licence text ships inside every package and is published by the Free Software Foundation at gnu.org.

Everything inside each package is covered: PHP, JavaScript, CSS, block markup, patterns, templates and the bundled assets described below. There is no separate proprietary part and no split licence.

Free Ariade and paid Ariade Pro

Ariade, the Ariade Child starter theme, the two helper plugins and all Ananyoo plugins are free. What you download is the complete product, with no licence key or usage limit, and updates are free as well.

Ariade Pro is an optional paid add-on plugin for the Ariade theme. It adds ready-made store templates and business sections, which you can see live on our showcase site. The free theme works fully without it.

Ariade Pro is also released under the GPL. What you pay for is the download, one year of updates and priority support for one site. There is no licence key, and nothing stops working when the year ends: you keep the version you have, and you can renew to get new updates and support again.

The Ananyoo plugins are also hosted in the WordPress.org plugin directory under our profile, profiles.wordpress.org/anblik, where every plugin passes the same review and licence requirements as any other plugin in the directory.

Bundled fonts, images and libraries

Ariade bundles two font families, Barlow Semi Condensed (copyright The Barlow Project Authors) and Geist (copyright Vercel), both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which is GPL compatible. The licence files ship inside the theme, and no font is loaded from a remote server.

All photographs and illustrations bundled in the theme were created by the theme author, Shivaji Mitra, and are released under CC0-1.0 / GPL-2.0-or-later. No stock photography is bundled. Where a plugin includes a third-party library, that library is GPL compatible and its licence is stated in the plugin readme.

Shopify and BigCommerce themes: single-store licence

Ariade for Shopify and Ariade for BigCommerce are paid themes. They are not released under the GPL. Copyright 2026 Shivaji Mitra (M/S. Anblik). All rights are reserved, except the rights this licence gives you.

When you buy a licence, you get the right to use the theme on one live store, plus 12 months of theme updates and support. You pay once, there is no monthly fee, and the theme keeps working on your store after the 12 months even if you do not renew.

Fonts or open source code bundled inside these themes keep their own licences (for example the SIL Open Font License), and this licence does not change them. Refunds for the paid themes follow our Refund Policy.

One licence, one live store

A licence is tied to the store address you give at checkout: your-store.myshopify.com for Shopify, or your-store.mybigcommerce.com for BigCommerce. You can also add one custom domain that points to the same store, for example www.yourbrand.com. Both addresses together count as one store.

You can keep extra copies of the theme inside the same store, for testing or for preparing a new design. Every other live store needs its own licence, including a second brand, a store for another country or a client store.

Agencies and freelancers: buy one licence for each client store. The licence belongs to the store, so you can hand it over to your client when the project is finished.

What you can and cannot do

You can:

• Change the theme code, colours, fonts and layout for your own store.
• Use the theme for any kind of shop, including commercial and client stores, with one licence for each store.
• Keep a backup copy of the theme files.

You cannot:

• Use one licence on more than one live store.
• Sell, share, give away or upload the theme, or a changed version of it, anywhere (theme marketplaces, file sharing sites, public code repositories and so on).
• Use the theme, or parts of it, to build another theme that you sell or give away.
• Remove the copyright notice from the theme files.

If a licence is used against these terms, we may cancel it and stop its updates and support, without a refund.

Updates, support and renewal

Each licence includes 12 months of theme updates and written support, starting from the date of your order. You download the theme and its updates from My account, under Downloads. For support, write to us through the contact page.

After 12 months you can renew for another 12 months at the renewal price. If you do not renew, the theme keeps working, but you will not get new versions or support.

Changing your store

If you close your store, change its myshopify.com or mybigcommerce.com address, or move your brand to a new store, write to us with your order number and the new store address. We will move your licence to the new store free of charge. The theme must then be removed from the old store.

Changing the custom domain of the same store does not need a new licence. Just tell us the new domain so that our records stay correct.

Names and logos

The GPL covers the code. The names Ananyoo, Ariade and Anblik, and the Ariade logo, identify our work and are not licensed for use as your own brand. In our WordPress products you may keep the theme credit line, change it or remove it; the code stays GPL either way. WordPress is a trademark of the WordPress Foundation.

Services are different from products

Our accessibility audits, remediation, VPAT and ACR documents and custom development are services, quoted per project under our Terms and Conditions. A service engagement never changes the licence of the products above, and code we deliver on top of WordPress stays under the GPL wherever the GPL requires it.

Questions

If you need this statement in writing for a procurement file, or you are a reviewer checking our products, write to us through the contact page and we will reply in writing.