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1. #Blender trees free full#
2. #Blender trees free software#
3. #Blender trees free code#
4. #Blender trees free license#

The in-house soft­ware then was called Traces back then, so when he did a com­plete over­haul of it he want­ed a bet­ter name for the project. The demo reel used a song from Yello, called Blender as well (“ The Blender for the next mil­len­ni­um!”).

#Blender trees free code#

You can check the source here code for it here, com­plete with com­ments in DutchĪccording to Ton, the name Blender comes from a stu­dio NeoGeo demo reel made in 1992. The first ver­sion of Blender with the clas­sic sub­di­vid­able win­dows we know today was run­ning by January 1994. The stu­dio was found­ed in 1989 by our favorite dutch Ton Roosendaal, who is also the first devel­op­er, main­tain­er and project leader up to this day.

Our beloved 3D soft­ware start­ed its life around the hol­i­days of 1993 as an in-stu­dio mod­el­ling tool for stu­dio NeoGeo (not relat­ed to the arcade/console ).

#Blender trees free software#

You can read more in the Free Software Foundation website

The free­dom to dis­trib­ute copies of your mod­i­fied ver­sions to others.The free­dom to redis­trib­ute copies so you can help others.The free­dom to study how the pro­gram works, and change it so it does your com­put­ing as you wish.The free­dom to run the pro­gram as you wish, for any purpose.Technically, this means Blender is Free Software and not just open source as it com­plies with the FSF’s def­i­n­i­tion of “Free Software”.Ī piece of soft­ware is con­sid­ered Free when it grants users these four freedoms: People are doing all kinds of crazy exper­i­ments with Blender and oth­er free soft­ware, you can check them out GraphicAll Richard Stallman founder of the FSF, author of the orig­i­nal GPL and self-pro­claimed saint Of course this does­n’t include the Blender name and logo, which are pro­tect­ed trademarks.

#Blender trees free license#

For exam­ple, you can make changes to Blender under a pro­pri­etary license but you if you want to dis­trib­ute them they will have to be released under the GPL. Libraries that inter­act with Blender also have to be com­pat­i­ble with the GPL and its four free­doms. The only lim­i­ta­tion is that you can’t re-license the code or dis­trib­ute it under a more restric­tive license. Most impor­tant­ly you can share all of this with others. You are free to keep Blender for­ev­er in as many PCs as you want, peek around the source code, change any­thing. All com­po­nents are com­pat­i­ble with the GPL 3 though, which is the license used for the final exe­cutable files the Blender Foundation distributes. Most of the code is devel­oped under the GPL2 license, while some mod­ules have more per­mis­sive licens­es. Free as in freedomįree as in free­dom is the licens­ing part of the equa­tion. The income comes from dona­tions of users, spon­sor­ship of com­pa­nies and foun­da­tions, sales of DVDs/ USB Sticks, merch, man­u­als (in the old days when we read books and such), fundrais­ing cam­paigns and sub­scrip­tions to the Blender Cloud. You can see this num­bers at any time on the fund page.

#Blender trees free full#

This lets the Blender Foundation employ 20 Developers to work on Blender full time. At the time of writ­ing this the Blender Foundation is receiv­ing rough­ly US$122,000 per month from ~5,000 indi­vid­u­als and 45 cor­po­ra­tions. Let’s look at how this is pos­si­ble but before we dive in, let’s see what free real­ly means here.īlender is free in both mean­ings: free of charge ( as in beer) and free as in freedom.īeing gratis or Open Source does­n’t mean devel­op­ing Blender does­n’t cost any mon­ey.

It’s no won­der that in all these years there have been very few open source mod­el­ling suites besides Blender, and none of them seemed to grow beyond basic poly­gon mod­el­ling. We’re talk­ing about one of the most math inten­sive prob­lem domains in soft­ware.