We've discussed this so many times. People who don't like the BGE license are welcome to use OGRE3d or Unity, etc.
So can we move on now, please? :-) Am 03.12.2012 01:50, schrieb Sinan Hassani: > Correct. This would not work. That's why in the post after that I > mention the idea of MIT license only when Blender is compiled as the > BlenderPlayer. When you use BGE within Blender it remains GPL, with no > exceptions to the case. Remember that BlenderPlayer is not all of > Blender, so there is no talk about relicensing Blender or anything of > that nature. > > But even that has holes in it and has to be thought about very > carefully. To be honest I'm not a big fan of MIT license either, but > some devs who used to contribute to BGE have told me that they would > only contribute code if BGE was licensed like that. > > I think it should be a license that removes distribution restrictions > yet have the requirement to provide source code upon release. > > But, yes, I'd like to stop this thread, as it has run its course. > > > Sinan > > On 12-12-02 06:21 PM, Dan Eicher wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Sinan Hassani <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> So one idea is to have the BF give people the ability to purchase a >>> license for BGE(Blender) for say $99 US where they can license it under >>> the MIT license. This would generate revenue for the BF, they can have >>> extra money to pay GE developers, and it will attract more developers. >>> This is how the Torque3D model now works, the engine is open source, >>> they make money on services. >>> >> Once you license it to *one* person under a MIT license it's licensed >> to *everyone* under a MIT license. >> >> I'd just learn how to use (or write an exporter for) a MIT'd game >> engine myself... >> >> Dan >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
