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Using Mixed Licenses for Blender Products
One of the things that we’re seeing more frequently in the Blender community are products that are a mix of code and non-code parts. For these kinds of products, the GPL isn’t really sufficient for covering all of the different incorporated parts. Those elements are better served with a different class of licenses.
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How to Convert Your One-file Blender Add-on to an Add-on Package
You have an add-on and you’re ready to put into a proper folder structure so you can more easily share, maintain, and sell it. This article gets you from here to there.
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Let’s Talk about Theft, Piracy, and DRM
Continuing our series about Blender, Blender add-ons, and the GPL, it’s inevitable that the discussion will eventually swing into the direction of this question: “What if someone steals my work?”
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How to Make Your Blender Add-on GPL-Compliant
A comprehensive nuts-and-bolts how-to on what exactly needs to be done to make sure your add-ons comply with the GPL.
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How to Sell GPL Software (and avoid being a jerk about it)
Whenever we work with open source software, this question invariably comes up, “How do you make money?” This is especially true when it comes to Blender add-ons, which do need to comply with the terms of the GPL. Let’s get into it.
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Orange Turbine is the New Home for CG Cookie’s Blender Add-ons
The tools section of the CG Cookie business is moving over to our newly created sister company, Orange Turbine, which is a specialized consulting firm that helps companies integrate Blender into their production pipelines.
