Licensing and money from other sources

[Peeling]

I’m tinkering on a homebrew project in Unity that I’m hoping to release commercially at some point. I have no particular beef with the terms of Unity licensing, apart from one issue: does money my company earns from other, non-Unity contract work count towards the thresholds? Because I don’t fancy publishing something that might earn me a bit of beer money - or more likely nothing at all - and end up having to fork out a thousand quid for the privilege

Sorry if this has been asked and answered; I did my best with the forum search and Google.
Thanks!

[Dreamwriter]

Yeah, the wording of the license is that if your company has earned $100k US dollars or more in the last year then you must use Plus, if your company has earned $200k US dollars in the last year you must use Pro (and subscriptions are for 12 month minimum). So for example if say Mazda (the car company) wanted to make a Unity game, they’d have to pay for Unity Pro right from the start, though they’ve of course not made any of that money from a Unity app.

I guess though that it is actually different for an individual - if you are making this game as a Sole Proprietor and not as part of an existing company, then only income earned from Unity Software counts.

Here’s where the terms are: Unity Editor Software Terms

Unity Personal may not be used by:

• a Commercial Entity that has either: (a) reached annual gross revenues in excess of US$100,000, or (b) raised funds (including but not limited to crowdfunding) in excess of US$100,000, in each case during the most recently completed fiscal year;

• a Non-Commercial Entity (this means academic and governmental entities as defined below) with a total annual budget in excess of US$100,000 (for the entire Non-Commercial Entity (not just a department)) for the most recently completed fiscal year; or

• an individual (not acting on behalf of a Legal Entity) or a Sole Proprietor that has reached annual gross revenues in excess of US$100,000 from its use of the Unity Software during the most recently completed fiscal year, which does not include any income earned by that individual which is unrelated to its use of the Unity Software.

[Peeling]

Thanks. I’ll just publish it under my own name rather than the company.

[DroidifyDevs]

@Peeling

Thanks. I’ll just publish it under my own name rather than the company.

It doesn’t matter how you name it. Taking @Dreamwriter 's example, if Mazda called their gaming division “Joe’s awesome video games!”, it wouldn’t change the cost. The agreement refers to “Commercial Entity”, “Non-Comercial Entity” and “Individual”. You are an individual, so you’re subject to part 3 in the agreement text shown above.