The NI General Purpose Software License Agreement(s) can be found here.
In English, if you search for the word "student", you find Addendum E - Academic License Terms.
It reads:
- Software under any of the academic license types may not be used for commercial or industrial purposes. Only software licenses subject to the academic research terms may be used for research purposes.
- Authorized Applications developed using Software subject to an academic license may not be distributed for commercial purposes and must be distributed with a prohibition against redistribution for commercial purposes.
Based on those, your use seems OK, as long as you include the "prohibition against redistribution for commercial purposes".
But (assuming you really have a Student Edition License, and not one of the other Licenses mentioned there), there is an additional limitation under item 4. that says
- "you may use the Software for [educational purposes], and not for any other purpose."
- (It spells it out for students and instructors separately)
So, it does *not* list distribution as an allowable use, but it also does not explicitly prohibit it. In my opinion, it would be OK as long as the distribution is within your classroom/personal educational use...but I can't think of a use like that except for a teacher distributing a template/example, or a student submitting their homework.
(Maybe I'm just not creative enough. 😁)
If I were you, I would carefully read the license agreement and decide if your use case is allowed.
EDIT:
To actually answer your question, I don't think you are legally allowed to publish a project from a Student Edition using *any* software license. But I'm not a lawyer, so my answer is purely my personal opinion.
I think only someone at NI would be able to give you an "official" answer.
-joeorbob
