Maya LT supports MEL scripting right? Just no Python? Modo Indie doesn't have any scripting support. I hate to give Autodesk kudos with their all sub nonsense just around the corner but it looks like Maya LT is the best deal right now.
Copy/Paste seems to be broken on Mac. Gets this error: Error: file: /Applications/Autodesk/mayaLT2016/Maya.app/Contents/scripts/startup/cutCopyPaste.mel line 49: The "system" command is not supported by Maya LT. //