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'Free Blender Fund' campaign

The Dutch non-profit corporation 'Blender Foundation' seeks to preserve and add value to the 3D software package Blender, and the good will, endeavours and investment of the Blender user community at large. The Foundation funding campaign will finance the initial (one time) license fee to the IP owner, and enable setting up an open web portal with user and programmer services, from which the sources will be distributed as Free Software under the GNU GPL license.

In the past four years Blender has received a wide recognition among artists, educational institutes, and internet communities world wide. With a 250k+ registered user-base, over 3 million downloads, and a web-portal getting thousands of visitors each day, it has been a very successful project. Due to circumstances, the company owning Blender, NaN Holding, didn't succeed in establishing a profitable business exploiting proprietary software. The Blender Foundation is very happy with the bold move of NaN Holding, to cooperate on establishing a permanent new future with respect to the original mindshare philosophy of Blender.

The funding campaign will concentrate on the following areas:
1. The user community, by donations, added value Membership
2. E-shop: sale of support and promotional materials.
2. Companies, funds, institutes or individuals by means of sponsoring
4. Individuals, to volunteer in committees (e.g. the Endorsement Committee)

After the funding campaign has reached the 100k limit, the sources will be opened. Access to sources and web services will be free then.
The Foundation then continues with Sponsoring, E-shop activities, and sales of less restricted (non-copylefted) licenses to companies, all to cover services and foundation exploitation in general.