From Evil to Good: List of Formerly Closed-source Software

"Blender

"Blender is a 3D animation program which can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications.

"Released in 1996 as proprietary, it was relicensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) in 2003."

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