Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Using proper copyright RE:Blender





Blender and the GNU GPL license
Blender is free software, in the sense of liberty, not as in price (although Blender also comes without a cost, think "free speech" instead of "free beer"). Its source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (or the GNU GPL, for short). However, anything you create in Blender is considered your own work, and you can license it however you wish. For example, if you create a house in Blender, you can save it as a .blend file and license that individually, or render it and then sell the image.

The same goes for screenshots. Even though individual elements, such as the icons or the Blender logo, are licensed under the GNU GPL, you can still take screenshots of Blender and upload them under your own license! For more information, check out the Blender License page and the Blender FAQ page.

Uploading and using screenshots and other images in modules
You can take a screenshot in Blender by going to Window &rarr; Save Screenshot. You can then upload this screenshot (or other media files) to Commons by using their Upload Wizard, which will walk you through each step, or by using the form at  Special:Wizard. You can include templates such as the template to specify more about using the file. After uploading, you can include the file in a module by using  (replacing   with the name of your file.