In reply to Boba (@WPCanyon).

The problem is, authors on Envato are asking Envato to retro-actively apply renewals to even previous purchases. That will affect hundreds of thousand people.

If you have built a site on some theme and plugins and sold them for almost cost, you then need to break your agreement with your customer or pay yearly to keep giving them updates.

That's why I rather purchase my stuff outside of Envato. If an item was bought on lifetime, the devs do NOT change them to yearly renewals, unlike what some authors on Envato would do :)

Even Pippen of EDD and AffiliateWP, honoured the lifetime licenses when he shifted Restrict Content Pro out of CodeCanyon.