The final product is free. They're charging for the production repo/file access.
Open-source software doesn't stop being so just because access to the source code is paywalled, as long as it has an OSI-approved license.
Open-source software doesn't stop being so just because access to the source code is paywalled, as long as it has an OSI-approved license.
Yes, and no. You used to be able to download the final cut in nice 1080p/4k. Sintel, you could download the final thing in completely uncompressed 4k TIFFs if you wanted to, and the audio in FLAC.
Nowadays they just get released on YouTube and you have no control over the quality / bitrate it uses. It's a shame.
If subscription ever becomes necessary to run Blender, I am picking up my pich-fork, until then, money well earned.
Additionally if they aren't already available as torrents you can download them all, host them and sell access at a much cheaper rate and I am pretty sure you would come even quite quickly. If they are open source, this is legal.
Everything you find in Blender Cloud is either GNU GPL compliant software, or creative content that's licensed as Creative Commons. We use three CC licenses here:
CC-BY:A permissive license that allows any re-use for as long you give a fair credit. It's the default license. If you don't see an explicit license mention on a web page, you can assume the works is CC-BY.
CC-0:This is similar to Public Domain. We want to license low level assets (textures, props) as CC0 as much as possible.
CC-BY-SA:The copyleft license. Any re-use is fine for as long you share it under the same (compatible) license. We use this for works we want to remain part of Free Culture.
Whilst this is true, all OSI-licenses give others the ability to redistribute that code, and that doesn't appear to be the case here.
From https://studio.blender.org/blog/blender-cloud-v3/
Everything you find in Blender Cloud is either GNU GPL compliant software, or creative content that's licensed as Creative Commons. We use three CC licenses here:
CC-BY:A permissive license that allows any re-use for as long you give a fair credit. It's the default license. If you don't see an explicit license mention on a web page, you can assume the works is CC-BY.
CC-0:This is similar to Public Domain. We want to license low level assets (textures, props) as CC0 as much as possible.
CC-BY-SA:The copyleft license. Any re-use is fine for as long you share it under the same (compatible) license. We use this for works we want to remain part of Free Culture.