License Confusion

Hi there,

I am creating a premium WordPress theme to sell on Themeforest. I don’t like the idea of choosing all GPL for my theme if I bundle this plugin. Is this really necessary? Themeforest employs split licensing, why can’t I just use that? https://help.market.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/202501064?_ga=1.208167125.636652309.1430513732

I’ve notice a theme called SmartMag that still uses the standard Themeforest license. They forked the Site Origin Page Builder Plugin and bundled it with their theme. Is this the only solution to including the plugin with your theme and keeping the Themeforest license? Of course I will have modifcations to the plugin and do all the necessary steps to fork a GPL plugin as stated in this article: https://help.market.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/202822660-Guidelines-for-forking-GPL-code

This is an amazing plugin, it’s much simpler and lightweight compared to Visual Composer. I’d love to use it, maybe you guys should consider the option of integrating directly into a theme without the use of a plugin. Just like Redux Framework allows you too. I would even pay for a license for something like this.

I’d really appreciate your feedback.

Thanks,
Paul