There's been a lot of discussion on here about "how could we move to a point where we weaken the copyleft Blender has?"
I would just like to put in that not everyone hopes this will happen... I do not hope it will happen. I personally think the lack of a copyright assignment within Blender, and using the GPL, is actually tremendously to Blender's advantage: it keeps the copyleft strong, even when people don't want it to be.. example, now. This is a feature! I know that people have the best intentions here, hoping to increase the diversity of Blender usage, but I think that if Blender is good, people will use it. If companies want to make their own custom tools in-house, they can already do that. But I personally don't see value in a future with proprietary extensions on top of Blender. I don't have anything more to contribute to the conversation here (well besides the temptation to correct some clear misinformation on the thread, of which there's been a lot, but I'm staying out of that also). I'm only writing this email to comment on the fact that there's been a ton of noise on-list related to changing the license, despite the tremendous difficulty that would be involved in doing so. Well, not everyone wants that to happen. I don't. Keep Blender maximally free! - Christopher Allan Webber _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
