What exactly is non-commerial use?
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2020 2:26 pm
You all know the drill. Free for personal use only.
But what exactly is non-commercial use. I have heard multiple explanations:
But what exactly is non-commercial use. I have heard multiple explanations:
- don't distribute the software in something you sell (usually used with some open source tools)
- don't use it in making something to sell
- don't use it if you are a company (buy the pro version)
- don't use it if you are an employee in a company
- don't use it in a work that makes money
- ...
- If I were a freelancer and I used a renaming tool to organize my work files. This would help make my work easier, even if not directly involved in the work itself.
- What if I used a pdf reader to read a book that can help me with my work?
- What if I use it to learn about something I may expand into professionally later.
- What if I use it to read about a subject that just interests me, but will expand my mind/views/skills in a way that will help me in my work (the subject of automation for example)?
- Things are getting more and more removed from a clear commercial case, but that is the point. Where to draw the line ethically if not legally?
- What if I used a note-taking application to store my notes and ideas about work among other things?
- etc