Add-on bundling policy in Blender releases
Ton Roosendaal via Bf-committers <[email protected]>
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Hi everyone, Back in 2013 I proposed here to have an option for companies who wish to include an add-on in the Blender release. The original request was from Shapeways, the add-on they offered would make it easier for users to send the file over to their server. We settled on a set of simple rules for this, outlined on this wiki page (in bottom). https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Process/Addons I suggest to drop this exception per Blender 3.0 (released in Q3). The immediate reason is that I expect offers from commercial software vendors offering add-ons to bridge with their products, which would devaluate our open/free mission. Back then, in 2013, the requested donation was also quite welcome. It currently feels awkward though, and it actually defies the definition of how donations should work. I've discussed it with the bf-blender admins, and they agree on dropping this. If we would do something to help our add-on developers; it's to build a more friendly way to offer/upgrade officially approved add-ons via blender.org. Currently, afaik, there is only one company using this option (and donating still): Sketchfab. I will connect with them. Feedback welcome, -Ton- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - www.blender.org Chairman Blender Foundation, CEO Blender Institute / Studio Buikslotermeerplein 161, 1025 ET Amsterdam, the Netherlands _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers