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Print at Jan 21, 2026, 4:28:20 AM |
| Posted by sjb007 at Nov 3, 2025, 7:19:56 PM |
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Review of the last 14 months... I'm afraid it is looking increasingly bleak for SweetHome3D from my point of view. Space Mushrooms (oddly named AI Photo Editor Lab SRL on Apple) are seemingly not supporting the original, free GPL licensed application in any meaningful way. They appear to have gone closed-source only - they haven't made any commits to the sourceforge code repository. If they purchased the copyrights from Emmanuel then it is entirely their right to go closed source, and the GPL is not protection against this. The GPL does allow someone to fork the last GPL'd code and release a fork. Any changes to that fork would have to be GPL only, and I believe that those changes could not then be included in the closed source versions as that would violate the GPL of the new commits. The only thing Space Mushrooms have paid attention to is the application channels they can derive "premium" subscription fees from. Want updates? New features? Bugfixes? It looks like you will have to pay to play. Of course this leaves Linux users out in the cold as there is no common way to get subscription fees out of us, even if we were willing to pay YABS (Yet Another Bloody Subscription). The website is still running, and SH3D 7.5 can still be downloaded (for now), so I suppose there is that small mercy. My advice is to download it and enjoy 7.5 while you can, and keep that download safe. Oh well. It was nice while it lasted. |
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