National monument license question

[ZTroHall]

If this is in the wrong section, I apologize.

Would a national monument with no fees be allowed to use the free version of Unity? Would all the national parks combined be considered one entity or is each park considered its own entity?

[Schneider21]

I’m not a lawyer or legal representative of Unity, so take my input only at face value.

From the software licensing agreement, I believe this is the relevant part for you, with emphasis added by me:

• if you are a Legal Entity using the Unity Software (other than to provide services to someone else), your Total Finances are your gross revenues and/or funding (no matter what the source), or, if you are a Not-for-Profit Entity, your budget for the entire entity (not just the department using the Software),
• If you are an individual or a Legal Entity providing services to a third party, your Total Finances is deemed to be your customer or client’s Total Finances, and
• if you are an individual using the Unity Software, but not providing services to a third party, your Total Finances are the amount generated in connection with your use of the Unity Software. In this case, your Total Finances would not include amounts you generate from other work (for example, if your day job is as a zookeeper).

Since I can’t imagine there’s a single national monument with an annual budget below $200,000, it sounds like you’d be required to use Unity Pro. Remember as well that this is one seat for each person with Unity installed on their machine. $1500/yr for a government entity isn’t really all that much, though.

As far as National Parks go, since the National Parks Service’s annual budget is around $3 billion, you’d definitely need to be using Unity Pro for that.