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Wonder if this will lead to a functional iOS port of Blender?

Pretty much the whole reason I went with a MS Surface tablet instead of an iPad of some sort, was the lack of Blender.

Would be pretty wild to have a full Blender running on my M1 iPad Pro, though I imagine touch controls are somewhat tricky (maybe pen only?).

The UI is pretty flexible -- each panel can be resized and the elements of a panel can be blown up/shrunken. It does it's best to reflow things sanely... with varying levels of success.

Not unless Apple open up their locked-in platform. Blender licensed under GPLv2 or later and fortunately it's completely impossible to change source code license.

Could you please elaborate how does Blender's license prevent them from having an ios port?

Appstore rules are incompatible with GPL. There a lot of past discussions on this topic:

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store...

Thanks for linking this

Note that this is no longer true under the App Store agreements today, which allow using a custom license.

https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/term...

> Any App that you acquire is governed by the Licensed Application End User License Agreement (“Standard EULA”) set forth below, unless Apple or the App Provider provides an overriding custom license agreement (“Custom EULA”).

Probably more augmented reality tools

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