What does "commercial" and "personal" use mean?

Question

I know this may sound like a dumb question, but there are so many descriptions of "commercial" and "personal" use for graphics, fonts, etc that it's pretty confusing.

Say I want to use a certain font to make into a graphic and color it and everything...add text. I want to put it onto my website (a free one, no one has to pay membership fees) for other people to use for their MySpace profiles, emails, etc.

Would that be considered commercial use?

Or is commercial use when you make money off of it?

Thanks!

-Albrie

Answer 1

Commercial means you are using the product to make money. Personal means you are using it for your own personal use and not trying to make money.

I work for a software company and we have commercial and academic licenses. The academic software licenses are free and to be used only for teaching and non-commercial (non-monetary) research. If a person, organization or company wants to use the software to make money, they must pay for a commercial license.