Blender software. 2.79b Version. About, License & Development
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Tihomir Dovramadjiev Technical University of Varna MTF, Department Industrial Design
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Blender software. 2.79b Version. About ●
Blender / About https://www.blender.org/about/ The organization
Blender Foundation is a Dutch public-benefit corporation, established to support and facilitate the projects on blender.org.
The software
Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process. Examples from many Blender-based projects are available in the showcase. Blender is cross-platform and runs equally well on Linux, Windows, and Macintosh computers. Its interface uses OpenGL to provide a consistent experience. To confirm specific compatibility, the list of supported platforms indicates those regularly tested by the development team. As a community-driven project under the GNU General Public License (GPL), the public is empowered to make small and large changes to the code base, which leads to new features, responsive bug fixes, and better usability. Blender has no price tag, but you can invest, participate, and help to advance a powerful collaborative tool: Blender is your own 3D software.
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Blender software. 2.79b Version. About ●
Blender / About https://www.blender.org/about/
The license
You are free to use Blender for any purpose, including commercially or for education. This freedom is being defined by Blender’s GNU General Public License (GPL). Read more about the license.
Development
Blender is being actively developed by hundreds of people from all around the world. These include animators, artists, VFX experts, hobbyists, scientists, and much more. All of them are united by an interest to further a completely free and open source 3D creation pipeline. The Blender Foundation supports and facilitates these goals—and employs a small staff for that—but depends fully on the global online community. More help is always welcome! From developing and improving Blender to writing documentation, etc, there are a number of different things you can do to get involved.
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Blender software. 2.79b Version. License ●
Blender / License https://www.blender.org/about/license/
The Software ●
Blender is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL, or “free software”).
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This license grants people a number of freedoms: You are free to use Blender, for any purpose You are free to distribute Blender You can study how Blender works and change it You can distribute changed versions of Blender The GPL strictly aims at protecting these freedoms, requiring everyone to share their modifications when they also share the software in public. That aspect is commonly referred to as Copyleft.
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The Blender Foundation and its projects on blender.org are committed to preserving Blender as free software.
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The source code we develop at blender.org is default being licensed as GNU GPL Version 2 or later. Some modules we make are using more permissive licenses, though, for example, the Blender Cycles rendering engine is available as Apache 2.0. Blender also uses many modules or libraries from other projects. For example, Python uses the Python License; Bullet uses the Zlib License; Libmv uses the MIT License; and OSL, a BSD License. All the components that together make Blender are compatible under the newer GNU GPL Version 3. That is also the license to use for any distribution of Blender binaries.
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Blender / License https://www.blender.org/about/license/
The Software ●
Blender is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL, or “free software”).
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Your Artwork
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What you create with Blender is your sole property. All your artwork – images or movie files – including the .blend files and other data files Blender can write, is free for you to use as you like. That means that Blender can be used commercially by artists, by studios to make animation films or VFX, by game artists to work on commercial games, by scientists for research, and by students in educational institutions.
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Blender’s GNU GPL license guarantees you this freedom. Nobody is ever permitted to take it away, in contrast to trial or “educational” versions of commercial software that will forbid your work in commercial situations.
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Blender / License https://www.blender.org/about/license/
The Software Blender is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL, or “free software”).
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Privacy and Internet access Blender respects your privacy, no registration is needed, no connection to the internet is made if you decide to install and use Blender. Blender does not need internet to function properly. Some add-ons bundled with Blender may access the internet for additional services. These add-ons are not enabled on installing Blender. These add-ons are not required to be enabled for proper functioning of the software, nor will any Blender function ask for enabling such add-ons. Add-ons that require internet will ask a user explicit permission to use internet while or after enabling the add-on. Note: this applies to the official version provided via blender.org. We always recommend you to use the official releases. 2018
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Blender / License https://www.blender.org/about/license/
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Using Blender’s game player When you combine your artwork (in a .blend file) with Blender’s game player (as a stand-alone binary for example), the inclusion of this player requires that the entire bundle has to be released compatible with Blender’s license. FAQ for Artists Apart from creating art or movies or 3d models, you can also use Blender as a Python scripter or to use Blender for game playback. Website license Most of the blender website is available as Creative Commons Attribution, with some exceptions. Read about that here. https://www.blender.org/about/website/ 2018
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Blender Software https://www.blender.org/ Tihomir Dovramadjiev PhD. Modern accessible application of the system Blender in 3D design practice. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312033613_Modern_accessible_application_of_the_system_Blender_in_3D_design_practice Blender / About https://www.blender.org/about/ Blender / License https://www.blender.org/about/license/ Blender / Reference/Release Notes/2.79 https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.79 Apace OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/download/
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