[prog] General purpose 3d graphics engine

[Miriam English]

Hi Kelly,

I partially agree. POV-Ray was freely and openly sharing its source 
since way before the days of GNU Public License, "Open Source", 
CreativeCommons and other permutations. I believe they have been looking 
at different licensing options, including GPL. I don't know the state of 
such decisions at the moment, but while POV-Ray is open source, it may 
well be said that it is not "Open Source". It's not likely to affect 
most people though as it doesn't hamper making money from your artwork 
or sharing the standard version. And MegaPOV is a freely distributable 
modified version of POV-Ray so I doubt their restrictions are very 
onerous. But thanks for the pointer. I'll have to look into that.

Best wishes,

	- Miriam

Kelly Martin wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Miriam English <mim at miriam-english.org> wrote:
>> POV-Ray http://www.povray.org/
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>> POV-Ray is another free, open source 3D program that began back in the
>> 80s, before the open source movement had a name. It has been ported to
>> virtually every operating system in existence, including, of course,
>> Linux.
> 
> POV-Ray is not open source.  Their license agreement places
> significant restrictions on redistribution of modified versions that
> are inconsistent with most open source definitions.
> 
> Kelly
> 
> 

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