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		icemelt8 on Sept 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importa... > Unreal has licenses which allow you to use one version of their engine FOREVER and they cannot revoke that license. Unity also had a similar clause in their ToC, they removed that now and retroactively applied the new pricing model on ALL previous versions of Unity. Unreal can do it too.

jzl on Sept 15, 2023 [–]

This still seems to be an unresolved legal question. Unity will almost certainly be getting sued for this by parties still using versions that shipped with that clause.

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