Unity Pro license for 1 project.

Unity Engine
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Hi Community. I’m working with a client that has purchased a Unity Pro and Unity iPhone advanced license. They are giving me the key, but only for 1 project.

I already own Unity indie and Unity iPhone basic. If I install the Pro keys will I be able to revert back to my original licenses after the project is over?

Thanks so much for your help.

Josh

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And what they are doing is against the terms of our licensing. Licenses are not transferrable and not meant to be “lent out” like this. If you’re a contractor doing work for a client then you need to own the appropriate license yourself.

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Thanks for the heads up Tom. I’ll be sure to discuss the breach of terms with my clients.

Thanks for the quick reply too,

Best,

Josh

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To answer your original question,

Yes, you will be able to revert. When I was an employee of a studio, I used their key. I had their key at work, and at home. When I left that studio, I bought my own indie (not swapping back and forth), but just re-licensed, the installed Unity app, and it worked fine.

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And that is in fact true. This is how many folks with Indie try out Pro, we provide them with a serial number they use for 30-days to unlock Pro features, at the end of that they revert back by re-entering their original serial number.

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Based on an email to Unity, they said that with Unity Pro, we can deactivate a users machine and then put the software on a new developer’s machine once we begin a new project? Before we made the purchase of Unity Pro we proposed this question. Let me know if anyone has any thoughts on this.

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that is how it works basically to my understanding and from what mentioned when I asked about this topic as I do external contractor work primarily (aside from own development)

But the dev must be part of your team no external contractor.

External contractors need to own their own licenses, they can not “temporally use team licenses”

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What if a company purchases a license on behalf its employee or contractor so they dont have to pay for it themselves and instead the company takes on the financial burden?

(By that I mean the license is purchased for that specific individual, and only that individual uses it, and its not recycled or reused by anyone else, and basically that individual keeps it as basically a gift to them)

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The company buys it, and is awarded the non-transferrable license. It can’t be gifted.

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Companies can buy and own licenses, then if needed reassign those to employees. When answering the above I’m noting that a company cannot buy licenses and assign those to contractors as that would constitute lending the license to a 3rd party which isn’t allowed.

So there’s a big point of differentiation when discussing a company owned license and company employees, and a company owned license and external 3rd party contractors. One is possible (employee situation), the other is not (3rd party contractor).

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If the company purchases the license on behalf of the contractor and the contractor then owns it in perpetuity then that’s ok, there is no “transfer of ownership” in that case (you need to use the contractor’s name when making the purchase though, they must be listed as the license holder from the get go; if not that then just work it into the expense of your contract work and have that payment made up-front). In the case of the OP’s situation they were going to temporarily use then return the license to the company they were doing work for and thus my answer.

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Thanks for the clarification!

Its good to know :slight_smile:

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I’ve just had a long chat with Josh’s client (on the phone) and I think we’ve cleared everything up nicely.

@Josh: check your PMs. :slight_smile: