koobas.hobune.stream
Question is off-topic or not relevant
EULA for Academic Institutes in the USA
Hello Everyone, I have an important concern and question and would need your expert advice on this. Our academic institute (a university!) is a 'legal entity' and above the 'free' thresholds thus we must buy license for using the unity pro. Now our IT person is forbidding us to buy it because of the following reasons: 1. export control clause and a venue and choice of law of Denmark to which our academic institute cannot generally agree to comply with foreign law or jurisdiction. 2. s/he doesn't like the warranty clause nor the limitation on liability.
Please let me know if you have had similar issues for buying unity pro in an academic institute in the USA and if you were able to overcome what made it work for you. I have contacted the Unity Rep (Sara) for our state and haven't heard anything back, I don't know whom to approach at Unity for this EULA concern that our campus has raised out of those fine prints and is following who know what laws to interpret the purchase of this new technology and software.
I know this is not a typical technical questions as most of you professionals are discussing in this community though, before I could start to chip in my questions I need to get the unity pro and is desperately looking for a solution in this regard. This would mean a lot and help a lot if you all can help in this regard or connect with someone who can help it explain to our university IT dept.
I look forward to your earliest help in this regard.
Thanks,
Skyler
Sara you mentioned is, I think a community manager, I think you need to contact the sales for USA http://unity3d.com/sales/finder
Frustrating though it may be to you, I applaud your I.T. manager for having the due diligence to actually check the terms of the EULA and to understand their implications.
That said, I'm not sure that much can be done. The EULA is pretty explicit and, to my knowledge, non-negotiable. Like all contracts, it's also voluntarily entered into, so if you're unhappy with the terms, the solution is simply not to use Unity. But you're right to try to contact your sales rep and confirm that.
I've brought in Unity Pro licences for academic institutions here in the U.$$anonymous$$. with no problem - I don't see why U.S. would be any different. - but if your I.T. department is not comfortable with the terms then you may be stuck (though I doubt you'll find any other equivalent software that doesn't have very similar liability/warranty)
This questions is not fitting for Unity Answers. No one here has the authority to answer legal / licensing questions. You should contact Unity directly: support@unity3d.com
