But just to clarify. It would need the BF to agree to offer such a license, NaN to agree, and all the Blender contributes since relicensing to GPL to agree to such a thing.
So relicensing Blender is possible, but it's way too complicated than relicensing parts of VLC, that's for sure. Sinan On 12-12-02 02:04 PM, Dan Eicher wrote: > On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Tom M <letter...@gmail.com> wrote: >> A second issue is that code ownership isn't solely that of the BF and >> contributors - technically the original dual licensed code from when >> blender went open source - the NaN shareholders still have some sort >> of legal rights. So any other licensing changes other the those >> transformations allowed under the GPLv2 or the original Blender >> license could be quite headache inducing. >> >> LetterRip > I'm guessing The Community didn't purchase the cppyright to the code > but merely paid to have it released as GPLv2 then? > > If that's the case then all these talks on re-licensing are mostly > (totally) pointless... > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers