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

[Bastien Montagne]

I find it pretty sensible to ask a company that sells products and makes 
benefits from it to contribute to Blender fund, if they want to use 
Blender as a kind of support/communication tool (even though banners & 
co would not be allowed).

Adding their addon into Blender release may attract new users to 
Blender, but it will first of all attract new potential clients for 
those companies!

This has nothing to see with addons that are simply adding features to 
Blender, and which will (mostly) never give any (financial) benefits to 
their coders.

On 08/08/2013 14:50, Angus Hollands wrote:
> Hi,
> Just an initial note; I'm using the batched summary, so I apologise if I've
> missed something, or am reiterating someone else's opinion.
>
> With regards to these plans, I struggle to identify how a "commercial"
> add-on is different from a "community" developed add-on. Unless there are
> plans to add an interface that provide some additional functionality to the
> commercial developer, I don't think this is the way to go. The reason being
> is this; it looks to me as though we're selectively charging developers to
> use a subset of an open source project that non commercial developers have
> access to. I'm aware that there are scrutinous policies to ensure that we
> don't let substandard works into trunk, so in that respect the commercial
> add-on is treated no differently.
> It reminds me of a recent experience, in which people with employment that
> was connoted to be well paid were targeted as part of a fundraiser. If we
> are to introduce a fee to support development, that should be enforced upon
> all contributors, not just those from commercial origin. How do we
> determine when someone is commercial etc; it seems to be to be rather
> invasive.
> I am fully in support of supporting the development fund; no matter the
> cause, financial incentives are effective, but I'm not sure that I would
> personally agree with using it in this manner. Indeed, apply points one,
> two and three to all developers, but not necessarily number four.
>
> Regards,
> Angus Hollands (agoose77)
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