Blender Developers Blog
Blender 2.93 marks the second installment of the LTS program. This time around, the bar for sharing the builds was raised to a new level. Blender is now fully compliant with the highest standards required by third parties to redistribute it.
This all started in May 2020. At the time Blender’s license was explicitly mentioned in the website as well as in a single license document present in the code base. However this didn’t account for the components Blender depended on.
More specifically, while Blender itself is licensed as GPL 2.0 or later, Blender depends on multiple libraries that each have a different license. To quickly mitigate that, Blender 2.91 started to ship with a license folder that allows users to check the full licenses of all the components built with Blender.
With the release out of the way, the Blender team could revisit this topic again. After a second pass on the state of the licenses, and …
