[Bf-committers] Solid book is out and available

[Stephane SOPPERA]

Matt Ebb wrote:

> As far as I know, Blender is only currently distributed under one 
> license - the GPL.

I can read at the beginning of each source file (here is the example of 
editscreen.c):
/**
 * $Id: editscreen.c,v 1.47 2003/10/30 00:13:50 ton Exp $
 *
 * ***** BEGIN GPL/BL DUAL LICENSE BLOCK *****
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The Blender
 * Foundation also sells licenses for use in proprietary software under
 * the Blender License.  See http://www.blender.org/BL/ for information
 * about this.

Does that mean that this source code is under BL license?

Perhaps do you mean that no BL license has been sold yet?

> The BL is license is something that can be negotiated later by 
> interested parties, but when we usually download the source, binaries, 
> etc.as we do right now, Blender is being distributed under the terms 
> of the GPL.
>
> That brings up a point though - just as including GPL code (Solid) 
> would mean a re-negotiation and agreement if Blender were to be 
> distributed under a non-GPL license, wouldn't that also mean we'd need 
> agreements from everyone else who's contributed code (since that code 
> was contributed under the terms of the GPL)? 

Actually the question is: was the code contributed under GPL or under 
GPL/BL? That's still unclear to me.

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Stephane SOPPERA
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/stephane.soppera