Re-branding Blender (Blender Foundation)

The Blender Foundation has put out a press release about two companies that are re-branding the Blender 3D content creation suite and selling it. While that is not a GPL violation of any kind, the companies are playing fast and loose with copyright: "The companies IllusionMage and 3Dmagix resell via their websites Blender under their own name. Both websites are probably managed by the same person or company. [...] On their web pages they intentionally hide that the products are distributions of GNU GPL licensed software, and that the software is freely downloadable as well. More-over, even after contacting them several times, they don't remove copyrighted content from their websites. A lot of text and images have been copied from blender.org and random images - not even from blender - were copied from various CG [Computer Graphics] websites." (Thanks to Paul Wise.)

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