[Bf-committers] cycles GPLed or BSD?

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Had meeting with Brecht on this today; the API is currently rna-via-c+ 
+, similar to python api but much faster. How to make such an API  
"BSD" or define license exceptions for it, I honestly don't know yet.  
A working bypass is to just code it via pipe() though, basically only  
data has to be passed on anyway.

To not make our projects become even more complex, let's try to focus  
on smaller targets first.
- Validate Cycles design in general
- Make roadmap and planning for how it could replace 'internal'.  
(might take a year!)
- Work closely with other free/open render engines to ensure they get  
the the benefits first of an API (Lux, Aqsis, Yafaray, Freestyle, etc)

Once we have a good working system, investing time on extensions to  
commercial engines can be done well by contributions from such  
companies too.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 29 Apr, 2011, at 17:52, Shaul Kedem wrote:

> +1 on both. GPL for render part, BSD for API - is that possible, after
> all, all of the other stuff in the code (which will be statically
> compiled with the cycles code base) is GPL.. ?
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>  
> wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> To me Brecht didnt mention he'd prefer licensing as BSD. We just
>> agreed on putting it all under BF copyright, with our standard gpl
>> headers.
>>
>> BSD will for sure be more attractive for the industry to copy and  
>> use,
>> but if that gives back useful contributions is quite disputable. For
>> as now, Cycles is candidate to be evaluated to replace internal  
>> render
>> in the future, and for that GPL will suit perfectly.
>>
>> Using the render API to connect to other (commercial) engines is a
>> good issue to check on though.
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
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>> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
>> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The  
>> Netherlands
>>
>> On 28 Apr, 2011, at 23:32, Tom M wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm did the license get changed to GPL?
>>>
>>> I thought the plan was BSD licensed?  It will make it far easier to
>>> attract contributors from industry with BSD licensed code.
>>>
>>> And BSD is compatible with GPL so shouldn't be an issue on our  
>>> side...
>>>
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