#1

Hi guys, couldn’t find a Contact Us, so this seems like the second best place. Your EULA states “Non-profit organizations can use OBSIDIAN without commercial licenses”. I work at CERN, and although it isn’t a profit-making place, it is also NOT a Non-Profit in the strictest sense of the word.

Am I allowed to use it for my own work at CERN without needing to buy the annual license?

I would be happy to pay for it as well, but the commercial license costs are too much for me to bear unfortunately.

#2

You should ask the IT department and your grant coordinator to buy the license for you using CERN’s funds.

I am sure CERN pays for the software that are used over there. So why not paying for obsidian as well?

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#3

@exergy, not sure what you’re using Obsidian for, but I would love to see a graph view of notes on different particles and their properties! :nerd_face:
-former reactor plant operator, and control room operator for a national laboratory

I agree with @WhiteNoise on the license. If you’re using it for work then a commercial license is appropriate. But it shouldn’t come out of the employee’s pocket. Just present your use-case and they should be able to charge it to your grant, or center funds.

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#4

Fair enough. I was hoping that there might have been a way for me to buy it outright for use without having to go through the hoops involved in getting IT involved. I will ask them whether they can procure it.

@GreenFlux unfortunately, I’m an engineer and not a physicist. Feynman’s diagrams are greek to me haha! But I’m paid by CERN, without any grants or external funds. So it’ll have to be my department that pays.

#5

Plus 256 on that one too :wink:

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#6

Hi lads, thanks for the help. I decided to just buy it myself.
50 dollars, over a ten year period, is only 500 dollars, which is peanuts compared to what the software gives me. Please treat this matter as resolved.

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