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GPL for artists
Can I use Blender commercially?
In a few sentences, what is the GPL?
Can my organization use Blender internally without giving up our valuable changes to our competitors?
Can I change Blender and give it to my co-workers or employees?
Can I give Blender to my co-workers or employees?
Can I sell plug-ins for Blender?
Can I sell my own version of Blender?
Can I distribute the official blender.org releases under my own branding and name?
How does the GPL and Blender benefit me?
What about the splash-screen and icons?
What if I take screen shots of the Blender interface?
So I can make games without having to worry about the GPL, right?
What about my Python scripts?
Can I license .blend files myself?
Technical
Why does Blender not start/display strange colours/show a blank screen?
The Blender screen is blurred and unreadable. What can I do?
Blender is running slowly. What hardware can I upgrade for better performance?
Blender gets slower and slower, I have an ATI video card?
Mac OS X
Blender crashes immediate
How can I get Blender running faster?
Mac Mini and Intel gfx problems
How do I use Blender with a one button mouse?
How do I configure my 3 button mouse?
What is different between the Mac OS X version of Blender and other versions?
Why doesn't Blender use Aqua?
Using Blender
Which book should I buy?
How do I do [some specific Blender function]?
Windows
Blender crashes immediate
Why does Blender start with a DOS command line window?
What does the warning "Import site failed..." mean?
How do I set Python Home?
Linux
What is different in Blender for Linux, compared to Blender for other platforms?
Is there any advantage of running Blender on Linux?
Blender is running way to slow on Linux, why?
Do I need any particular window manager or graphic desktop to run Blender?
How do I find out if I'm using acceleration for my graphic card?
How can I solve drawing errors in the interface?
How will my graphic card behave with Blender and Linux?
How can I make Blender running from a Desktop shortcut?
I have a ATI driver crash on opening window
What does the error "Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0" mean?
If I make a .blend file in Linux, can it be opened in other platforms?
Sound in sequencer is not working
What about binaries plug-ins? Can they be used cross platform?
Do I need root access to install Blender?
Why there isn't an automated installer?
How do I install Blender on my Linux system?
What do these error messages mean?
What does the error about a missing libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 mean?
What does "ERROR: File .blanguages not found" mean?
Where do I find more information?
I have some contributions for this document, how do contact the FAQ maintainer?
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