I get the impression that the "commercial" addons will be promoted as such and maybe also have a "special" highlighted section in the addons list and/or the web archive? (Tastefully done of course)
A way for companies to say "We actively support Blender *and* we sell services around it too because it is a viable commercial platform for our business model". Still Open Source Software but with a view towards commercial interests. IMO, it fits well with the Blender Network model. Commercial Artists using open source software. Why not have commercial addons too? -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd On Thu, August 8, 2013 11:00 pm, Bastien Montagne wrote: > 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) >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
