Rocketwerkz's CEO alleges Unity are threatening to revoke studio's licence over apparent personal licence usage
Dean Hall claims the data used to support Unity's claim is "bogus"
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DayZ creator Dean Hall is alleging that Unity are threatening to revoke all licenses for workers at his current studio Rocketwerkz, the team behind Icarus. The developer made this claim in a lengthy post on Reddit saying that Unity are doing based on "bogus data about private versus public licenses." Hall shared what he claims is an email from Unity dated May 9th where they explained that the Unity Compliance Team has flagged Rocketwerkz's account as according to their data, the developer "currently [has] users using Unity Personal licenses when they should under the umbrella of your Unity Pro subscription."
According to Hall, when they asked Unity for more details, the evidence they provided included five email addresses that have supposedly "been logging in with Personal Edition licenses." Hall then noted that two of these email addresses had @rocketwerkz addresses, one being an employee who uses Unity Personal but does not work on a Unity project at the studio, the other being an external contractor who was provided a Pro licence at the time of their work.
Unity is threatening to revoke all licenses for developers with flawed data that appears to be scraped from personal data
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The third was supposedly a personal email address of an employee, who Hall also says is provided with a Pro license, but the Rocketwerkz CEO says the second two were obscured email domains of employees at a separate company in Dunedin, New Zealand, neither of which have worked for Hall's company. Hall notes that Dunedin is where Rocketwerkz is based.
If what Hall is saying is to be believed, it's likely that this is the reason employee emails from another company have been provided as evidence. However, that would obviously raise some questions as to how this happened in the first place.
Unity do not appear to have offered an official statement on the situation at this point in time, but I've reached out for comment.