Blender Is Free Software

Post by benj111 » Sun, Jun 09, 2019, 1:43 PM UTC

klez wrote: post #37

benj111 wrote: post #26

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When you say free software, you have to clarify, 'free as in freedom, not as in beer', libre doesn't have that double meaning.

Libre doesn't have a meaning at all, in English, so you'll have to explain that as well. In other languages that I know there is no such problem because the two meanings of "free" are clearly disambiguated by two different words.

Post by Al-Khwarizmi » Sun, Jun 09, 2019, 1:44 PM UTC

mplanchard wrote: post #45

mbrock wrote: post #35

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On the other hand freedom is a really nice word that everyone loves whereas "libre" is some fake French or something that you have to try to pronounce with some kind of rolled r like is that really going to succeed in the American marketplace of ideas

It isn’t fake. Libre is a real french word that means “free to do [something]” or “free from [something],” along with a few other meanings. I do think the pronunciation issue is going to hamper its adoption, though. If it’s pronounced as it is in French, it’s very similar to how we say the zodiac sign “libra,” but if you don’t know it’s french, it could easily be Spanish/Italian/Latin and be pronounced “leebray.” The…

Post by iamcreasy » Sun, Jun 09, 2019, 1:46 PM UTC

jsty wrote: post #23

opencl wrote: post #9

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Somebody recently launched a new site "Blender Depot" which hosts a bunch of Blender add-ons and provides a batch install feature. Some of the add-ons on this site are commercial plugins available for sale by their authors. All Blender plugins have to be GPL so this sort of redistribution is legal but some of these authors have been rather upset about it. So a large argument ensued on the Blender forums about the GPL…

I think the referenced forum discussions are [0][1] for anyone else trying to find them? [0] https://blenderartists.org/t/introducing-blender-depot-brows... [1] https://blenderartists.org/t/yet-another-discussion-about-th...

Post by vimslayer » Sun, Jun 09, 2019, 1:52 PM UTC

benj111 wrote: post #26

kingpinfreddy wrote: post #21

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Wtf

When you say free software, you have to clarify, 'free as in freedom, not as in beer', libre doesn't have that double meaning.

Post by JeremyBanks » Sun, Jun 09, 2019, 1:54 PM UTC

herbstein wrote: post #54

neilv wrote: post #18

I try to say libre software rather than Free Software , and I wish the FSF would back the libre term fully. When RMS is giving a speech, he has an opportunity to expound on what's now wordplay about "free software", to a captive audience that's perhaps already receptive or prepared to listen. But low-level grassroots advocacy opportunities often happen in contexts in which people are talking for some other purpose, a…

I'm a soon-to-be third year CS student. If I started to use the term "libre software" I'd be ridiculed to hell and back. I think you overestimate the receptiveness of developers.