I was watching the new Git project lists, when i noticed that Maya source code has been placed on Github
There was not much in the news about it, they have not placed a download link on their public site either.
The readme.txt file on Github gives some explanation as to why.
Apparently they want to attract more developers to their source code.
And since partially their code was based upon a game engine who got open-sourced recently.
They where kinda forced to go open-source too.
To be ahead of any kind of claims and also welcome future developers, they went to Github
Building Maya from source is not really recommended for common users ea 3d artists.
And in a strange twist they even put some text down that people are not allowed to share compiled source code online.
So you got to download source and compile it yourself.
Compiling takes also quite some time, but it can be done with visual studio 2015.
The Github source code can be found here http://goo.gl/aPP9f2(link shortened as its quite long)
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