Join Jonathan Williamson and myself, Jonathan Lampel, as we talk about how Blender's Open Source GPL license affects the users and creators of free and paid Blender addons.
If you make addons, use addons, or are just spectating the Twitter debates about addon piracy, this is a discussion you won't want to miss!
For Retopoflow, apologies I forgot specify :D
[Q] Do people complain that an addon as time goes on probably it sell rate drops, but still you have to keep maintaining the addon code and keep improving it?
@jonathanwilliamson There is another example: Extreme PBR. the code is GPL, but it comes with materials, which are not
Do you guys have a gumroad page or any other type of donation users could donate to? I think the price on blender market was around $70, for me personally its high but i'd like to donate what I can.
That's why no dwg import option in blender
Clean Room Design
reverse engineering
If Blender wasn't using that licence I doubt we'd be where we are today. I would have been bought and buried many years ago.
Imo writing anything outside of Open Source in most cases doubles development time, and isn't worth the time avoiding, especially on small projects.
Would you be willing to make it mandatory for all addons on BlenderMarket to post their source code, either on BlenderMarket itself or a link to a public Github? This would essentially make the "purchase" button a "donate" button.