Working as freelancer without pro license

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Lets say i find opportunity to work in unity as freelancer. I didnt buy pro license yet (i will if i earn some money with unity :p). Lets assume my potential employer has unity license, which is not used by anyone - can we start working this way, that he gives me access to his unity license for time i work for him, and after i finish work, i wont use his license anymore. Is that possible ?

I'm from Poland, we are really poor here, so i cannot risk in buying unity license before i know i can earn money with that.

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Answer by Fattie · Jan 02, 2013 at 12:18 PM

cześć !

There is no problem, at all,

with your employer using HIS commercial licence, for HIS product in question.

Of course. No problem.

As for you --- you can go ahead and use your OWN free license, simply for LEARNING / experimenting in your own house.

What could possibly be wrong with that??

Don't forget you CAN make money with the free version of Unity !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Basically, you can make up to US$100,000 a year.

Unity encourages people to make money with the free version - after all there is like 1 million users. (It's just that you can't be a "big" (> $100,000) company.)

Simply carefully read all the info here:

http://unity3d.com/unity/faq

(You should realize that it is very likely, that, as soon as you are making money, you will need to buy the Pro version - because it has more features.)

(Also be aware that the copy protection on Unity is essentially perfect - you have to telephone them and so on - so don't even waste your time trying to hack it.)

Note that if YOU are using YOUR license to make a game for a company, then of course, obviously, you'd be charging them for that. For example if Parker Bros. offers you $20,000 to make some game, but they wanted YOU to supply the Pro licence rights for Unity, obviously you'd ask them for $5000 more to cover that. Anyway, that's irrelevant where you are now.

BTW ..

(A)

"I'm from Poland, we are really poor here" .. What the hell man!

Poland is one of the most successful countries in Europe. Try being from Eireland, Greece, Portugal. England is an economic cesspool where only bankers and railroad companies make money. France and Germany are about to implode under mountains of debt. One of the only free, hardworking countries is Poland !

Try raising a family in an expensive city with no economic prospects like Paris or whatever. I think I might move to Poland!

(B)

All skilled programmers, in almost any speciality, can easily make lots of money. It makes no difference at all where in the world you live. Don't whine! :)

Usually when you hire someone or learn about a gifted programmer by reputation you don't even know where the person lives these days. Surely everyone knows this it's been true for 10 years.

if you are just starting out, you are in the identical position to someone in a poor third-world collapsing city like Chicago, or a rich futuristic successful city like Shanghai. No problem!

No difference!!!! So good luck!!!!!!! :)

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MarkFinn · Jan 02, 2013 at 12:40 PM 1

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Hah! I'm actually looking at moving to $$anonymous$$nd in order to make a living myself. I've been managing n China for a few years now, but the never-ending paperwork and visa issues are catching up at least.

I certainly can't hope to do it back home in Ireland.

whydoidoit · Jan 02, 2013 at 01:04 PM 0

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Actually with U4 you can juggle licenses yourself using the new license manager - so the employer can relinquish his license to @ryba while he works on the project and then get it back afterwards. Presu$$anonymous$$g he's happy doing that it should be fine.

Fattie · Jan 02, 2013 at 01:09 PM 1

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fascinating, @why ... had no idea.

It's true about $$anonymous$$nd, everyone's moving there for the beautiful buildings, low prices, great people etc. (All the beautiful women there have nothing to do with it, that's just a coincidence ;-) )

$$anonymous$$ark -- perhaps H$$anonymous$$? (ie assu$$anonymous$$g you have "800 zillion dollars" to buy a one-bedroom broom-cupboard there!)

ryba · Jan 02, 2013 at 02:37 PM 0

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Well, i have no idea where are you getting that info about $$anonymous$$nd. Our gov takes about half of your earned money at start for income-tax and compulsory insurances. After that average person has about 1500PLN. Housing releated fees takes about 500 PLN, you have 1000 PLN, many ppl have to pay off mortgage, lets say 500PLN (for 30 years). So they have 500 PLN left for food, doctor, clothes. About 15 PLN for a single day. 1 liter of petrol costs 5.5 PLN, bread costs 3PLN, pair of cheap boots costs 50-100 PLN etc ... Its really hard to live here. In such circumstances I cannot allow myself to spend 5000PLN on one program license, I have to first be sure that i can make some money with unity, working as freelancer for someone else at -evenings after i came home from work. If i manage to work out money for license with unity free / working as freelancer using employer license, then i for sure buy my own, but not earlier.

whydoidoit · Jan 02, 2013 at 02:39 PM 0

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Best of luck with it. What's your background?

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