Licence for commercial use

[chrisxxx]

Good day, I recently purchased Affinity Photo and love it, but remain uncertain if I may also publish and  sell my Pictures, even if done just occasionally this would be "Commercial use" anyway. I did read the Terms, which I understand that Commercial use would generally be possible but I don´t understand "open source" and "third Party" clauses in the context. Thanks!

[MEB]

Hi chrisxxx,

Welcome to Affinity Forums

Generally speaking commercial use implies to generate money from the work you produce with the application. If you are taking your own pictures and editing them in Affinity Photo for sell then it's considered commercial use and you are certainly allowed to do it (that's why you have bough the app for!).

 

The open source materials section is simply to acknowledge that the application makes use of code/materials distributed freely under certain conditions. These conditions/licenses are listed/described in the Licenses.rtf file included with our apps. It doesn't relate directly to you/your work in any way.

 

Third party software/copyrighted material refers to assets/files (macros/brushes/sample files etc) provided with the program. If they include license terms you must comply with them as well. For example some files we provide as free content - the Studio Retouch Brush Pack offered with the latest iPad update or the Uplift - Epic Skies Overlays & Macros) - include a license/terms you must respect, telling what you can and cannot do with them. They usually forbid you to distribute, sublicense, resell (etc) them like most assets you acquire/buy from digital stores, but you are allowed to use them to produce/create your own work (for sell or not).

[chrisxxx]

I want to say thank you for the quick reply, which was helpful! The app is great! it would have been too  bad being limited in using the creative output... Kind Regards, Chris

[RPD]

Hi I'm quite new to Affinity and also having read the terms and conditions, still remain a bit confused, though this answer here has been helpful. I've currently got Affinity Photo and Design on trial and am looking to buy them especially as I have a design background.

One of the main reasons I want them is so I can create and edit my own books and cards and publishing items. I was thinking of creating a children's book and selling it, would I be able to do that without breaching any license terms and would the copyright be my own also. For example if I created a book that was my own images, designs and edited on Affinity Photo/Design, would I be able to sell it and have it as mine and be able to sell it?  (There wouldn't be much point of buying the programs otherwise, some of the jargon e.g. commercial use, I can struggle to understand, fortunately cleared here).

[v_kyr]

5 hours ago, RPD said:

One of the main reasons I want them is so I can create and edit my own books and cards and publishing items. ...
... For example if I created a book that was my own images, designs and edited on Affinity Photo/Design, would I be able to sell it and have it as mine and be able to sell it?

YES!