The goal is to solve confusion of the "All rights reserved" for licensing
code under an open-source license.
The phrase "All rights reserved" comes from a historical convention that
required this phrase for the copyright protection to apply. This convention
is no longer relevant.
However, even though the phrase has no meaning in establishing the copyright
it has not lost meaning in terms of licensing.
This change makes it so code under the Blender Foundation copyright does
not use "all rights reserved". This is also how the GPL license itself
states how to apply it to the source code:
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program is free software ...
This change does not change copyright notice in cases when the copyright
is dual (BF and an author), or just an author of the code. It also does
mot change copyright which is inherited from NaN Holding BV as it needs
some further investigation about what is the proper way to handle it.
Adds a new `source/blender/asset_system` directory and moves asset
related files from BKE to it. More asset related code can follow
(e.g. asset indexing, ED_assetlist stuff) but needs further work to
untangle it. I also kept `BKE_asset.h` and `asset.cc` as is, since they
deal with asset DNA data mostly, thus make sense in BKE.
Motivation:
- Makes the asset system design more present (term wasn't even used in
code before).
- An `asset_system` directory is quite descriptive (trivial to identify
core asset system features) and makes it easy to find asset code.
- Asset system is mostly runtime data, with little relation to other
`Main`/BKE/DNA types.
- There's a lot of stuff in BKE already. It shouldn't be just a dump for
all stuff that seems core enough.
- Being its own directly helps us be more mindful about encapsulating
the module well, and avoiding dependencies on other modules.
- We can be more free with splitting files here than in BKE.
- In future there might be an asset system BPY module, which would then
map quite nicely to the `asset_system` directory.
Checked with some other core devs, consensus seems that this makes
sense.
Sergey Sharybin
Julian Eisel