Hello
We received resources related to game characters from a game developer. (json, atlas, png)
The developer has a license, and we don't have a license yet.
We are going to combine the resources received by runtime and render them on our web page. Do we need to purchase a license?
(Web page visitors can only watch anime)
As the runtimes license is currently written, redistributing the Spine Runtimes is allowed without a Spine license as long as the users of your product obtain their own Spine Editor license.
I suppose the product in your case is the web page and it's probably not feasible to ask all your web visitors to first get a Spine Editor license. Given that, then you would indeed need your own Spine Editor license. Spine Essential is sufficient unless you earned more than $500k gross in the past 12 months, then you'd need Spine Enterprise. You can provision Spine Enterprise for zero users if you only need it for the Spine Runtimes.
This doesn't come up as often as it might seem at first because almost everyone using the Spine Runtimes already has a Spine Editor license to create or edit their skeleton data. We would like to revise the Spine Runtimes license to make it usable on websites and to clarify the terms for those without a Spine Editor license, but I can't say when we'll find time to make that happen.
One more thing, every Spine licensee is granted additional rights for the Spine Runtimes, defined here:
http://esotericsoftware.com/spine-editor-license#s2
If a Spine licensee provides you a Product (as defined there), then you (being the 3rd party) can distribute that Product without a Spine license, but you can't make changes to it. Note a Product has to add "significant and primary functionality to the Spine Runtimes". If it's only skeleton data + Spine Runtimes then it doesn't qualify as a Product and you need a Spine Editor license to use the Spine Runtimes on your website.
Thank you for your detailed reply. Nate
I understand that if 'spine runtime' is included in the web page and works, a license is required.
I have one more question.
Among your previous answers, we found that services that export and upload resources as images or videos do not require a license.
https://ko.esotericsoftware.com/forum/d/10301-spine-license/2
Is this answer still valid?
Yes, that's right. Spine exports (skeleton data, images, video, texture atlases, and Spine project files) are fully owned by the Spine licensee that created them. They can be sold, given away for free, shown to users, etc without any limitations at all. Only if you need to use the Spine Runtimes are there limitations for using the Spine Runtimes. Licensing Spine removes most of those limitations, since our intent is for the Spine Runtimes to be used by Spine licensees.
Thank you.
And I have one last question.
According to your reply, we will need to purchase an Enterprise license. The company has more than 300 members and one prospective spine user. (Most members do not use spine)
Then how much extra charge should we pay for the base fee of $2966?
300 people * $299 or 1 person * $299?
Actually I mentioned it above: You can provision Spine Enterprise for zero users if you only need it for the Spine Runtimes and don't need to run the editor. Then the total cost is only the base cost.
