Unity Pro vs Unity Free License Teams Issue

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I have a question regarding section C under the Heading 2) Licensing restrictions: The Unity EULA states:

2) LICENSING RESTRICTIONS:

(a) Unity Pro may be licensed by any company, incorporated entity, or individual.

(b) Companies or incorporated entities that had a turnover in excess of US$100,000 in their last fiscal year must use Unity Pro.

(c) A company, incorporated entity, or individual may not use both Unity and Unity Pro.

Does (c) mean that I cannot work with a team of people if I have unity pro and they are using Unity Free?

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I wrote Unity about this. They indicated that teams had to be using either all unity pro or all unity free to work together. Ie: No mixing license types on teams.

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I don't see this as being any issue for you. If you were working for a company then they will provide you with the necessary software. If you're free lance or something else then you're classed as individual and not many people will use both free and pro unity on their own computer.

Well, i had a group of friends together using unity free for a commercial project but then i got unity pro, so i need to know how to proceed with the project now? Maybe uninstall unity pro and just use unity free for the duration of the project???

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@Link: you can't uninstall Unity Pro and use Unity Free; that would accomplish precisely nothing since they are the exact same app. You could possibly find the license/prefs info and wipe that out, which would effectively remove Pro features.

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Are you a registered company? If not, then don't worry about it

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What Unity Tech is trying to discourage is having one build machine with render-to-texture, realtime shadows etc, but everyone else on the team using the free edition of Unity. If you are using your Pro copy to add shadows etc. to your friends' work, then you are morally on thin ice. But maybe you aren't strictly in violation of the EULA wording, if there isn't a company or incorporated entity involved.

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@ bampf, I would never deliberately violate the eula. That was the whole point of posting the question. Right now, i have told the friends that i am no longer able to help them. If i can get a new computer and just have unity free on it, i might try to use ONLY unity free to help them IF that's even legal. Right now, sadly, i cannot help them anymore. I also wonder if i can ever do freelancing of work for someone who has unity free and me unity pro. I guess not eh?

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