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Note that ToS 3.6 does not apply — we are not publishing to extensions

The notes cite Blender extension ToS clause 3.6 ("fully written in Python, no
pre-compiled dependencies") in three places: against KIRI's 22 wheels, in
BlendSplat's favour, and as a reason the PLY-writer route is attractive. We are
not shipping to extensions.blender.org, so none of that constrains us — it is
information about those projects, not a requirement on ours.

Recorded because a stale constraint is worse than no constraint: it silently
narrows options later, and nobody re-checks a rule that reads like a rule.

Staying pure Python is still worth doing, for a reason that survives: the add-on
installs from a zip with no build step and every avoided dependency is one that
cannot break on someone's Blender. That is a preference we may trade away
deliberately.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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by plankatron <fleeky@gmail.com> · 2026-08-18T14:45:52.000Z

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7	7	---
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	9	## Scope note (2026-08-18) — we are NOT publishing to extensions.blender.org
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	11	Decided, so ToS clause 3.6 does not constrain us. Everywhere it is cited
	12	below — as a mark against KIRI's 22 wheels, as a point in BlendSplat's favour, as
	13	a reason the PLY writer is attractive — treat it as *information about those
	14	projects*, not as a requirement on ours. We can depend on compiled packages if
	15	there is ever a reason to.
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	17	There is still a good reason to stay pure Python, and it is not the ToS: the
	18	add-on installs from a zip with no build step, on any machine, and every
	19	dependency we avoid is one that cannot break on someone's Blender. That is a
	20	preference we can trade away deliberately, rather than a rule.
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	22	---
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9	24	## Correction (2026-08-18, later the same day) — the attribute contract
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11	26	An audit of Blender's own branches found that **design task #159470's prose and