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Well it's pretty obvious - they want products like Maya, Modo (already has it), SoftImage, ZBrush, Houdini to include this in the future, and they're not going
by berkut 14y ago
Well it's pretty obvious - they want products like Maya, Modo (already has it), SoftImage, ZBrush, Houdini to include this in the future, and they're not going to include GPL stuff in commercial products. LGPL might have been an option though...
- snogglethorpe 14y agoI suspect they could have easily found a more FOSS-friendly license which achieves their goals. The exact license depending on the exact goals, but presuming the "normal" GNU GPL isn't appropriate, the GNU LGPL or BSD/MIT licenses might be possibilities. The Ms-PL, on the other hand, seems to be a license which is gratuitously incompatible with the GPL, simply to be incompatible. I've seen projects where the README essentially stated "We hate the FSF, so we're using this roughly equivalent and yet incompatible copyleft license to piss them off," but I don't think Pixar are jerks, so I'll put this choice down to simple ignorance.