EClark1894 posted at 5:17AM Sun, 29 December 2019 - #4374867

Ironically, if they customize it, then it can no longer be called Open source, can it? :)

Sure it can, Open Source doesn't stop a person or commercial entity from customising it purely for their own personal or in-house use. But what it does do is prevent that customised version from being sold or distributed publicly, unless the source code is also made available along with it. This prevents companies from infecting Blender's code base with proprietary code, because the Open Source licence dictates the rules, and the rules are you have no licence to use or modify Blender unless the result conforms to the Open Source licence.

Gotta love that licence, Clarkie, much as the likes of Adobe and Autodesk hate it