Je me réponds juste pour dire que j'ai trouvé ce qui ressemble à l'annonce d'origine: http://www.blender.org/bf/(...)
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New future for Blender as Free Software!
friday july 5
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.
What the NaN shareholders and the Foundation agree on:
- publishing the full Blender sources, including old and new development, under a GNU GPL license.
- the Foundation will pay an initial fee of 100k euro for this (98k USD)
- the Foundation can exploit the Blender 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 professional 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 -- fin de citation
Est-ce qu'ils auraient eu la même faciliter à trouver des fonds s'ils avaient dit exactement ce qu'ils comptaient faire ? "Donnez des fonds et vous aurez blender en GPL, avec des forks non libres en plus ?"
[^] # Re: Double licence: et le risque de fork ?
Posté par fleny68 . En réponse à la dépêche Sortie de la première version Open Source de Blender. Évalué à 8.
Je cite --
New future for Blender as Free Software!
friday july 5
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.
What the NaN shareholders and the Foundation agree on:
- publishing the full Blender sources, including old and new development, under a GNU GPL license.
- the Foundation will pay an initial fee of 100k euro for this (98k USD)
- the Foundation can exploit the Blender 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 professional 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
-- fin de citation
Est-ce qu'ils auraient eu la même faciliter à trouver des fonds s'ils avaient dit exactement ce qu'ils comptaient faire ? "Donnez des fonds et vous aurez blender en GPL, avec des forks non libres en plus ?"