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A comment on Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI.

Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI by antman on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:48AM (#50389778)
License of GPUI is Apache and BlenderUI is GPL, which is limiting for adoption.
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Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI by chii on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:23AM (#50390541)
GPL is the best opensource license. But seeing this as a library, it might need to be LGPL rather than pure GPL (ala, you can use it as a library without "tainting" your source, but if you make modifications to the library, you must release it).
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Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI by solyin on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:32AM (#50390615)
AGPL if you wanna be serious about it.
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Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI by chii on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:36AM (#50390653)
May be, but AGPL is intended for server based apps, rather than local apps (which i presume this library is intended, but i suppose the javascript part can be considered to fall into the server category).
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Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI by ppmpreetham on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:01AM (#50391349)
Hello, creator here.

I don't think we can use LGPL since we were derived from Blender's Source code, which is GPL.

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Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI by chii on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:12PM (#50401536)
ah you're absolutely right; hadn't considered that!
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Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI by the__alchemist on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:42AM (#50393718)
Missed this - this is a deal breaker for many (most?) potential applications.
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