Let's assume it gets greenlit, now we have to talk to the website folks to put a link somewhere - but Legal are still on the case: 'ah, but we don't want to make it too easy, let's just have an email.' Who's going to monitor that mailbox? Can you do it, Jane? Legal goes 'no, Jane is technically not responsible for distributing, let's loop back in the release managers'. Legal goes 'it says here that we have to provide stuff on request, does that mean all our private code?' Jane explains how she carefully used it in such a way to avoid that scenario half of the explanation goes above the head of every lawyer in the room, so some of them trust her and some don't. She has to add the license file to the installer, so the installer people start asking questions: 'is this an eula? Should we display it on install?' Jane clarifies that we just need to ship it, but now Legal is in the loop. Jane Dev takes a bit of (L)GPL licensed code. He drops an acknowledgment in the About screen (which nobody will ever read), and that's it. John Dev takes a bit of MIT/BSD licensed code. I mean, it's much less trivial than other licenses. that can only could have come from bf_blenlib

> the executable contains strings like Error! Could not get the Windows Directory - Defaulting to Blender installation Dir!, Error! Could not get the Windows Directory - Defaulting to first valid drive! Path might be invalid! and BLI_dynstr_append text too long or format error. which is somewhat strange since they clearly lifted the GPL licensed bf_blenlib so the closed source nature of eyesight is odd to say the least. > It would have been nice if they kept the code opensource, so it could get all the improvements blender makes easily, but they seemingly chose not to go that way.

> they ship openimageio 1.7.15 which means the code is likely from somewhere in between -27 which is indeed around the 2.79 time frame. Got bored, did some digging in their binary, they built using some of our our svn libraries (I know it’s our libs since the paths embedded for some of the source files are local to my computer :slight_smile: ) which makes it easy to track down

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