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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 4573353" data-attributes="member: 2525">"Personal" in contracts is sometimes used when it is anticipated it will be a business executing the contract.  "Personal License" in that context means personal to the entity agreeing to the contract, and not as a professional distribution-type arrangement or more open license.For example, if my company orders a catalog from a printing company, we might have a contract where my company authorizes the printing company to use the photo negatives my company provides them under a personal license.  In that context, it means the photographs are not being provided for them to use as pictures on their walls, or for one person, or to sell to their other customers.  It means the license is particularized to use by that entity (the printing company, and all of their employees working on my order), and for the particular uses that are described in that agreement (printing a catalog for my company).Now "personal license" can also be used to particularize it to an individual.  But usually when that is the case the agreement focuses on users rather than accounts.  For example, Intuit's Quickbooks program sells a single user license for X dollars for one user, or a group of 5 user licenses for Y dollars, and each license is a personal license directed at a specific individual or single computer.  But for whatever reason in this case WOTC seems to have focused the contract on "accounts" rather than "users".  It's quite common for an "account" to be used by many people who are members of an entity (like a business).  For example, almost all companies have an account with a bank, and the account is accessible by many users at the company.  Or you might have an account with a vendor, accessible by many users.This issue would have been cleared up by a solid "Definitions" section of the license agreement, but unfortunately that is lacking in this case.  All we have to go on is the four corners of the document (the words they actually use in the agreement).  And I am trying to figure out if the agreement allows for a gaming group to buy one account for use by all members of the group.</blockquote>

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