I was trying to add paypal payment to my website, I'm using Gravirty form with stripe add-on but not paypal add-on. I happened to find a github repo for the (paypal addon). so I downloaded it then uploaded it to my website and now i have the plugin.

The developer who built the site has purchesed a licence for gravity form but i don't have it as i lost connection with him otherwise i can get the addon from the original source.

Now is what I did illegal or ethically wrong? If so, why such software and other ones are easily found and public on github?

Note: This disclaimer is found on the page "Gravity Forms PayPal Payments Standard Add-On, Git-ified. Synced manual! This repository is just a mirror of the Gravity Forms PayPal Payments Standard Add-On plugin. Please do not send pull requests and issues. / "

Thank you very much.

I was trying to add paypal payment to my website, I'm using Gravirty form with stripe add-on but not paypal add-on. I happened to find a github repo for the (paypal addon). so I downloaded it then uploaded it to my website and now i have the plugin.

The developer who built the site has purchesed a licence for gravity form but i don't have it as i lost connection with him otherwise i can get the addon from the original source.

Now is what I did illegal or ethically wrong? If so, why such software and other ones are easily found and public on github?

Note: This disclaimer is found on the page "Gravity Forms PayPal Payments Standard Add-On, Git-ified. Synced manual! This repository is just a mirror of the Gravity Forms PayPal Payments Standard Add-On plugin. Please do not send pull requests and issues. http://www.gravityforms/add-ons/paypal/ "

Thank you very much.

• plugin-gravity-forms
• paypal

• This is a development forum, not a legal or philosophy forum. These aren't questions that can (or should) be answered here. If you have legal questions, consult a lawyer. If you can't, and feel unsure, then just purchase the license legitimately. – Jacob Peattie Commented Apr 20, 2020 at 15:30

1 Answer 1

You did ethically wrong but that is not illegal. https://www.gravityforms/terms-and-conditions/

Gravity Forms is licensed under the GNU general public license (http://www.gnu/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt).

You have a lot of freedom with such tools.