Hi Ton, Those rules looks sensible to me too!
Perhaps force them to use a specific category? So that the user can find/filter out easily commercial addons, something like: 5) Clear user information The addon should use the "Commercial services" category only. Bastien On 07/08/2013 13:40, Ton Roosendaal wrote: > Hi, > > Hopefully this doesn't become a huge thread - I'd mainly like to get some > feedback from frequent contributors. > > Some companies have contacted me about the possibility of having an add-on in > our releases that hook up Blender with their services. That's for example > Shapeways, but also render farm providers. > > Such addons would make it easier for users to submit 3d models to a 3d > printing service (one click submit, costs feedback, etc). Or for submitting > render jobs to a farm with some feedback mechanisms. > > I'm still struggling with how or if we want this... I certainly don't want to > open up Blender for crappy commercialization with logos, banners, etc. > > A workable proposal I formulated is below, for which I'd like some feedback. > > ------ > > BF will accept add-ons in a release from commercial vendors/services under > the following conditions: > > 1) Compliancy > The add-on should comply to the same quality/design rules as we do for > regular add-ons. That includes license compliancy, but also to not include > banners, logos or advertisement. > The add-on would default be not enabled, users have to activate it themselves. > > 2) Clear user benefit > The add-on should provide functionality to 3D artists that's useful to have > inside Blender. It can't be for promotional usage of non-functional features > (like linking to websites only, for tutorials, book stores, etc). > > 3) Developed and maintained well > The add-on is being created and maintained by the service provider (or a > contracter managed by them). > > 4) Development Fund support > The service provider signs up for Diamond Sponsor level (250 euro per month). > Cancelling a payment then also means we can drop the add-on. Any service > that's not making this profits per month with an add-on, can be considered to > be not interested to have such an add-on either. > > > -Ton- > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Ton Roosendaal - t...@blender.org - www.blender.org > Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute > Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
