Well first of all, I respect buying licenses for the software, just because it’s going to be unfair to the people who paid a lot of money for that license. But it’s just that I have a very low funding for a project I came up with and worked so far. I use 3ds student license to build my models. And when I finished it I’d like to buy those licenses.
I spoke to a friend of mine, who studies law, said that this is illegal act. And that I needed to register a firm/studio name, rent an office, develop the game and after that release it. That costs a lot of money, around 30k$ she said.
Not sure that most indie devs have those kind of funding.