MATLAB: Can a PhD student use Matlab’s student version

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Hello everyone, I am using Matlab's Student Version for my PhD research. Today I checked this version's terms and condition. It says:

" MATLAB Student and the Student Suite can be used for course work as long as you are enrolled at a degree-granting institution, high school or continuing education program. Use in professional research conducted at universities and commercial use of student-use software is strictly prohibited ."

I was wondering if I am eligible to use this version or not. My research is not industry oriented, and there is no commercial use for my research. I am using Matlab for improving a methodology which currently is used in social sciences. But the phrase " professional research " has concerned me. Can you please let me know if you have any information about the eligibility for using this version. Thanks a lot.

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You should absolutely talk to your University's MathWorks' Account Manager.

In general most of us technical folks on here won't answer legal questions.

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If the paper is a requirement for graduation, then you can use the Student license for it.

If it is merely a good idea, sharing the results of your studying with the world, then as best I have been able to figure out, NO, you cannot use Student license for that.

What this would mean is that all of the work you are doing as part of your research to get your PhD qualifies as Student, but that anything you would do specifically for the paper would need Educational license, and that the figures created for submission should be created on an Educational license.

The boundaries do not always make practical sense.

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The appropriate section of the R2016a License Agreement says,

    2.1. Academic Internal Operations.  The installation and use of the
    Programs by Licensed Users, in accordance with the Academic License Option
    acquired, for the purpose of (i) in the case of employees (faculty and
    academic staff), performing software administration, teaching, and
    noncommercial, academic research in their ordinary course as Licensee's
    employees; and (ii) in the case of enrolled students, meeting classroom
    requirements of courses and study offered by the Licensee.  Any other use
    is expressly prohibited.

This is in contrast to

1. SCOPE.  The provisions of this Academic Installation and Use Addendum apply
to each Program licensed under the Agreement at prices offered only to
degree-granting educational institutions ("Academic prices") for Academic
Internal Operations only, as defined below.  Research and development divisions
and centers of universities, U.S. government agencies and other not-for-profit
organizations do not qualify for Academic prices.

So academic research is permitted with Academic licenses, but "Research and development divisions" are not. "Research and development divisions" are pretty much for-profit entities, if not directly then with the idea of developing an idea far enough that a commercial company will buy the rights (generating enough money to keep running the place.)

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