[Bf-cycles] Starting a new job

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Apache code can be simply converted to GPL without original author permissions, just not the other way around. 

I don't see any reasons to mark the move to become Apache for Cycles as a problem or a failure. Such decisions we should also do based on wide consensus by the active contributors. As far as I know, they are all happy with Apache. 

If that changes we'll tackle it. 

-Ton-

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On 15 Jun, 2014, at 2:38, Matthew Heimlich wrote:

> Personally, I wouldn't okay my code within Cycles to go back to GPL, and I'm pretty sure Brecht wouldn't either. Obviously his code would be a lot harder to replace than mine.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 8:36 PM, storm <kartochka22 at yandex.ru> wrote:
> Any chance to go back to GPL for Cycles, as with very tight concurrency
> in commercial render market anyone can rip and resell Cycles just
> replacing 2 lines of code w/o any chance for Bledner team to prevent it
> by legal action?
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