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Blender License (BL) dual-licence offer

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Kind
Licence offer (cancelled)
Term
Cancelled June 2005
Definition
A reserved right of the Blender Foundation to offer licences outside the GNU GPL, described in the BL text as never activated and cancelled for an indefinite period.
Commercial rules
No commercial licence is available apart from the GPL; COPYING states Blender is not available under other licences.
Applies to
Historical; Blender source code

Evidence 1

Blender License (BL) offer cancelled evidence
"For these reasons we've decided to cancel the BL offering for an indefinite period."

BL-license.txtBL-license.txt (blender/blender, doc/license)Retrieved 2026-10-08

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