Cycles renderer's new licensing to facilitate adoption by studios
Aug 19, 2013 by CGP Staff
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Blender’s “Cycles” license has been changed from GNU GPL to the Apache License v2.0 to allow the renderer to be linked and used with any program, including commercial software and in-house software at studios. For more on Cycles read the renderer’s documentation, latest improvements and new licensing press release on the Blender Developer blog.
Source: Oscar Jordan
And the winner is…. Capitalism! 🙂
This is the second most clever move Blender could do.
The first most clever move would be to allow it for all other “hooks”.
I am amazed: the guys -really- listen what their customer say – a huge “+” from me.