cjrollinson

Really?

Because I have now had both Facebook accounts removed from the ‘official’ community support group, for having the temerity to ask why the cost of purchasing a single license for Elementor Widgets had gone up from 9.99 to 29.99!

The website terms and conditions dispute that as per

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/if-you-are-an-elementor-pro-user/

and in your terms

Prohibited Distribution: Except for the Permitted Distribution to Sublicensees (as described in the foregoing paragraph), you are prohibited from distributing the Content in any way, and you are prohibited from allowing any third-party to make any use of it.

ergo Pro is not GPL

1. I didn’t say Elementor wasn’t GPL, I said Elementor PRO wasn’t GPL
2. It doesn’t say anything in the description about no header/footer/sidebar, so the uninformed would download this and assume they could build a whole site with Elementor and Hello which they can’t. The BlankSlate you refer to does properly describe itself, Hello does not.
3. If you need to be a skilled designer to use this, then don’t you think you should accurately describe it as such?

I haven’t misunderstood the purpose of this theme at all.

This theme which is being touted as the fastest theme for Elementor, doesn’t actually work very well with the basic Elementor that it asks you to install, as you cannot create/edit headers, footers or sidebars.

In order to actually utilise theme properly, and build a full site, you need to either purchase Pro, or try and find another free plugin that allows you to assign Elementor templates globally to the header/footer/sidebar.