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Porting and API / Re: Why there won't be Corona for Blender...

« on: 2017-11-30, 14:29:54 »

And, why is Octane Render for Blender (commercial product) released today if Blender is covered by GPL licence? ?? O_O

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r2o2zOducc

Indeed, and Indigo, and Thea, and Vray. It's impossible to get commercial-quality stuff into Blender, huh?

V-Ray for Blender does not give you access to RT, because of the GPL license. So you get a watered down version of VRay plugin compared to the other software.
Octane plugin is open source, that's why you get it working, but Octane Standalone, which is of course independent from your software, is not. That's why you get the plugin working (by the way, it doesn't work if you don't have the standalone).

I am pretty sure that the others, Indigo and Thea, have similar properties (either the plugin is open source, or something combined like Octane).

So there you have it.

Blender GPL license is your handbrake here.