[Bf-committers] Add-ons in Blender for commercial services

Thomas Dinges blender at dingto.org
Wed Aug 7 13:46:25 CEST 2013


Hi Ton,
those 4 point plan sounds very reasonable to me. +1

Best regards,
Thomas

Am 07.08.2013 13:40, schrieb Ton Roosendaal:
> A workable proposal I formulated is below, for which I'd like some feedback.
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> BF will accept add-ons in a release from commercial vendors/services under the following conditions:
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> 1) Compliancy
> The add-on should comply to the same quality/design rules as we do for regular add-ons. That includes license compliancy, but also to not include banners, logos or advertisement.
> The add-on would default be not enabled, users have to activate it themselves.
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> 2) Clear user benefit
> The add-on should provide functionality to 3D artists that's useful to have inside Blender. It can't be for promotional usage of non-functional features (like linking to websites only, for tutorials, book stores, etc).
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> 3) Developed and maintained well
> The add-on is being created and maintained by the service provider (or a contracter managed by them).
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> 4) Development Fund support
> The service provider signs up for Diamond Sponsor level (250 euro per month). Cancelling a payment then also means we can drop the add-on. Any service that's not making this profits per month with an add-on, can be considered to be not interested to have such an add-on either.
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> -Ton-
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> Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
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