Retrowave opened this issue on Dec 23, 2019 ยท 268 posts
wolf359 posted Sat, 04 January 2020 at 12:04 PM
No, Blender Cycles has a Apache 2.0 license. Thats a completely different license that allows commercial >usage without code sharing.
Correct, however the apache license still allowed for SM to legally fork cycles and sell it as part of a commercial application like Poser 11 , which answers Retrowaves query about how SM was permitted to have cycles in their commercially sold application.
You still do puzzle me in you fear of it breaking though. That pipeline cannot break, because your current DS, the plugin, and Blender can all be backed up to disk and reinstalled any time you wish. And even if an update introduced a bug, you would still be able to go back to the working version.
You are correct that anyone can archive an older blender or Daz studio installer and reinstall it in the future,but certainly you can see the flaw in such an outlook as you will be forced to "freeze your pipeline in time" perhaps even your OS itself, to keep it working and forego powerful new features ,in the latest versions, becuase you know updating will kill that one,(no longer developed), third party plugin,that is the single point of failure in your pipeline
Imagine if you had adopted some awesome third party plugin in Blender 2.4 and Daz studio 3.x
Assuming your OS supported them would,you be willing to still run those older versions today??.