With Blender Publisher 2.25 four license types are available:
Table 1. License types of Blender Publisher
Individual | Company | Educational | Unlimited | |
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# of Key licenses | 1 | 15 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Key bound to: | The person. Only this person can use it at any workstation | The legal entinity, one for each key installed | A legal educational entity for all workstations owned | The legal entinity, for all workstations owned |
Distribution | 1.000 copies | 15.000 copies | Unlimited for non-commercial usage | Unlimited |
The individual license is meant for freelance media professionals or one-man companies. The License (and Key) will be put on the name of this person only. The owner can personally use the Publisher Key on any computer he/she owns, also when these computers require different OS versions of Blender Publisher. Individual licensees can distribute media containing Blender players up to 1000 copies.
The company license works like a site license. This License is put on the name of the legal entity. Up to 15 computers or OS's within the company are allowed to have the Publisher Key installed, independent of the amount of people who have access to this. Company licensees can distribute media containing Blender players up to 15000 copies
The unlimited license is meant for large publishers or media companies who don't want to bother with a limited amount of Publisher installations or who want to distribute mass media with Blender players.
The right to distribute only applies to media products which include either a Blender Plug-in or Blender stand-alone Player or a Blender run-time. Copying and distributing Blender data files (.blend or .blip) are not limited by any NaN license. A product can be any collection of digital files, distributed via CDROM or any other digital media, offered as download or bundled in with any piece of hardware. Since distribution via the internet as download is hard to limit to a certain maximum, the duplication limits do no apply for non-commercial downloads, where anyone has free access to the download.
For a full description of the license, please refer to the text file that is included in the download.
Frequently asked questions and answers (FAQs)
Q: I am a freelance artist, and I was asked to make an interactive 3D presentation for a large publisher who aims to make 50k copies. Who is supposed to buy the Publisher license?
A: You should get an Individual license yourself, and ask the publisher to buy the Unlimited license; which grants him to make all the copies he wants.
Q: Can I transfer the right to re-distribute Blender runtimes to someone else? Or in other words, when I create the content, can someone else then make the copies?
A: No, this right is not transferable. This is pretty common for producers who work with copyright issues on creative content. For that reason most media companies deliver media duplicates to the clients themselves, providing an important addition to their revenues. When you - instead - sell the right to duplicate your Blender runtimes, the new owner has to buy a Blender Publisher them self.