[Bf-committers] 3dmagix. Is it now Blender brend?

[Jury Azovtzev]

Looks like on their site sales a lot of free software :)

There is advertisment of Sketcher (A $49 Value) the same as Pencil
http://www.pencil-animation.org/

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Jonathan Merritt <merritt at unimelb.edu.au>wrote:

> On 11/06/2009, at 10:05 PM, Christopher Cherrett wrote:
> > -------- Original Message  --------
> > Subject: [Bf-committers] 3dmagix. Is it now Blender brend?
> > From: Jury Azovtzev <gumanoed at gmail.com>
> > To: bf-blender developers <bf-committers at blender.org>
> > Date: 06/11/09 05:57
> >> Hallo!
> >>
> >> People from Blender3d.org.ua found the reference to a new software
> >> promotion
> >> site. The program called 3dmagix. You can find description and
> >> scrinshots
> >> here
> >>
> >> http://www.3dmagix.com/
> >>
> >> But, scrinshots too simular to Blender interface.
> >> Is it a new commercial brend of Blender?
> >>
> >> As i understand GPL don't give permision to a change name of a
> >> project.
> >>
> >>
> > I think they can change the name all they like. It is called a fork.
> > However I don't think many will follow them :)
>
> Well, even if it's legal, it appears to be morally fraudulent.
> They're selling a product (for US$ 47) which appears to be Blender (at
> least, from their screen shots).  AFAIK, selling GPL software is
> perfectly OK, but their advertising sounds like complete hyperbole.
> They certainly provide no indication that people can get Blender for
> free just by visiting blender.org!
>
> I think it would be worth contacting the FSF to see if there's
> anything that can be done to:
> i) confirm that they're distributing Blender, and that they haven't
> fairly added value
> ii) then, try to stop them from ripping people off
>
> Jonathan Merritt.
>
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