Title: Payment Required
Last modified: April 4, 2017

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# Payment Required

 *  [awakegal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awakegal/)
 * (@awakegal)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/payment-required-2/)
 * Why is this plugin here?
 * You need to pay to get the API key.
 * USELESS unless you PAY.
 * Please remove from the Free Plugins

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Shawn Hesketh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawndh/)
 * (@shawndh)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/payment-required-2/#post-8993786)
 * Thanks for your question.
 * Actually, the WP101 Plugin qualifies as “Serviceware,” under point number 6 in
   the WordPress Plugin Directory Guidelines.
 * 6. “Serviceware” plugins are defined as plugins that merely act as an interface
   to some external third party service (eg. a video hosting site). Serviceware 
   plugins ARE allowed in the repository, as long as the code in the plugin meets
   all other conditions. These are allowed even for pay services, as long as the
   service itself is doing something of substance. Creation of a “service” which
   does nothing but to provide keys or licenses or anything similar for the plugin,
   while the plugin does all the actual work, is prohibited. Moving arbitrary code
   into the service so that it can appear to do some work is also prohibited. This
   will be handled on a case by case basis and our judgment on any given case is
   final.
 * The plugin was created and submitted to the repo by WordPress Lead Developer,
   Mark Jaquith.
 * Not all plugins in the repository are free. You’ll find a number of commercial
   plugins in the directory, including VaultPress, Akismet, and more. These all 
   qualify as serviceware.
 * Hope this helps address your concerns, but please feel free to contact me at 
   any time with other questions.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/payment-required-2/#post-8993786)