Rob Bre­dow, CTO of Sony Pic­tures Image­works’ has announced 5 appli­ca­tions to be released as open source: ” This soft­ware can be freely used by large and small stu­dios around the world. We’ve inten­tion­ally cho­sen pop­u­lar non-restrictive licens­ing mod­els to help ensure you have lots of options.

Each of these projects have pas­sion­ate peo­ple behind them who are inter­ested in see­ing the code widely used. We’re into the idea of build­ing small devel­op­ment com­mu­ni­ties around this code. If you’re inter­ested in con­tribut­ing, join the respec­tive mail­ing lists and intro­duce yourself.

Take a moment to famil­iar­ize your­self with Image­works’ open source offer­ings. I hope you find some­thing useful.”