Forum: Blender


Subject: 3D Magix - A rip off of Blender

keppel opened this issue on Jun 10, 2009 · 15 posts


agiel posted Mon, 15 June 2009 at 9:35 PM

Once again - the problem here is not about selling blender.

Selling Blender is allowed, under the right conditions. Just like people can sell distributions of Linux, even though Linux is free.

The problems with his 'product' are that:

1- He did not mention Blender at all initially (making it look like it was his software) 
2- He used pictures from other people and work, without authorization (including images not made with Blender)
3- He didn't seem to include sources of Blender (maybe just an impression from his ads though)

Rebranding it as Blender + Video Tutorials (the real 'product' here) is a step in the right direction, although it doesn't change that the first attempts looked like he was selling the software as his own.