[Bf-committers] Can BGE be relicensed?

Dan Eicher dan at trollwerks.org
Sun Dec 2 20:04:15 CET 2012


On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Tom M <letterrip at gmail.com> wrote:
> A second issue is that code ownership isn't solely that of the BF and
> contributors - technically the original dual licensed code from when
> blender went open source - the NaN shareholders still have some sort
> of legal rights.  So any other licensing changes other the those
> transformations allowed under the GPLv2 or the original Blender
> license could be quite headache inducing.
>
> LetterRip

I'm guessing The Community didn't purchase the cppyright to the code
but merely paid to have it released as GPLv2 then?

If that's the case then all these talks on re-licensing are mostly
(totally) pointless...

Dan


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