BGL is deprecated and will not work on Metal devices. Although the
inital plan was to remove it in Blender 4.0, We don't see any harm
to still have it in the code-base until OpenGL itself is deprecated.
Add-on developers are warned when using the BGL module that the
add-on/script will not work on all platforms.
There are still some limitations inside the GPU module that needs
a more friendly API. This API isn't clear at this time.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112579
Listing the "Blender Foundation" as copyright holder implied the Blender
Foundation holds copyright to files which may include work from many
developers.
While keeping copyright on headers makes sense for isolated libraries,
Blender's own code may be refactored or moved between files in a way
that makes the per file copyright holders less meaningful.
Copyright references to the "Blender Foundation" have been replaced with
"Blender Authors", with the exception of `./extern/` since these this
contains libraries which are more isolated, any changed to license
headers there can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Some directories in `./intern/` have also been excluded:
- `./intern/cycles/` it's own `AUTHORS` file is planned.
- `./intern/opensubdiv/`.
An "AUTHORS" file has been added, using the chromium projects authors
file as a template.
Design task: #110784
Ref !110783.
