[GUFSC] Blender é livre? Resposta: ainda nã o, ... logo.

[Ricardo Grützmacher]

No café surgiu a discussão se o Blender era ou não Software Livre.

Em 
http://www.linux3dgraphicsprogramming.org/announce/listdir.php3?top=AllTopics 
  achei a seguinte informação:

Em: http://www.blender3d.com/

Open Source Blender?
nlin  -- 05/07/2002, 15h24:57 -- [Announcements]
Ton Roosendaal, primary creator of the Blender 3D modeling program, has 
announced that Blender may soon become free software or open source 
under a GPL or similar license. For this to happen, the Blender source 
code needs to be bought back from the investors for a price of 100,000 
Euros (approx. 95,000 USD), at which point the source can be released to 
the public. Watch blender3d.com for announcements - details of a 
fundraising effort will likely soon be announced.

Link: 
http://www.elysiun.com/viewtopic.php?t=2611&sid=65c63ce6f19e8cd13b1e44ac5b5c90dd

Notem que a notícia é de Hoje!

New future for Blender as Free Software!

Today the shareholders of NaN Holding have reached an agreement on the 
outlines for a new future for Blender. In general it means that a 
non-profit organisation (the Blender Foundation) will be enabled to 
execute its plans, including Blender development as an 'open source' or 
'free software' project.
Details of this agreement will be studied on and negotiated during the 
next week, hopefully resulting in signing contracts next friday july 12.

What the NaN shareholders and the Foundation agree on:
- putting the full Blender sources, including old and new development, 
in the public domain under a GNU GPL (or similar) license.
- the Foundation will pay an initial fee of 100k euro for this (95k USD)
- the Foundation can exploit the website and re-establish e-shop services
- NaN Holding will be sufficiently enabled to (re)start business in the 
future, for example licensing derived technology or special services.

NaN Holding recognizes that, giving all circumstances and the current 
economic situation, moving on with Blender to this next stage will be 
the most beneficial thing to do, to protect past investments, but also 
to respect everything that has been realized until now by the NaN 
companies and the world-wide user community.

I am very happy we were able to make this tough decision, hopefully it 
will become a historical step. Details on the activities to gather 
funding will be made public here soon. Stay tuned!

Ton Roosendaal, July 5, 2002
ton@blender3d.com


Att.

Ricardo.