[Bf-funboard] Blender licensing...

[Campbell Barton]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Tarmo Pikaro <tapika at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi !
>
>> It's unlikely the license will change.
>
> Why not ?

Heres a list of people you'd need to convince to change license
www.blender.org/development/credits

.... ok this is over simplification if the issue, however many devs do
keep copyright on code so even if blender foundation wanted to
re-license, they would need to get many contributors to agree OR
re-write their code (which is impractical in many cases).

> I think I had similar kind of discussion on debian:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2011/07/msg00059.html
>
> May be we could find some intermediate solution - like make it closed till
> development costs will pays off. :-)
>
> --
> Have a nice day!
> Tarmo.
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Nicholas Bishop <nicholasbishop at gmail.com>
> To: Tarmo Pikaro <tapika at yahoo.com>; bf-funboard at blender.org
> Sent: Monday, May 7, 2012 10:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bf-funboard] Blender licensing...
>
> It's unlikely the license will change. There's nothing stopping you
> from taking Blender in a CAD direction though, as long as you comply
> with the GPL.
>
> -Nicholas
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Tarmo Pikaro <tapika at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi !
>>
>> Is it possible to change Blender to use less aggressive licensing system than GPL ?
>>
>> I would like to join Blender development team, but tailor Blender for my own needs - but then Blender licensing restricts
>> to have any updates on my own. I think it should be in your intrests to get Blender well and improved, but improvement
>> can come only if you're allowing Blender to evolve.
>>
>> I guess you're taking Blender now into Autodesk Maya direction, I would like to tailor it to Autocad direction.
>>
>> --
>> Have a nice day!
>> Tarmo.
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- Campbell