As I see it, they're selling their software and supplying POV-Ray with the
software, which suggests that they sell POV-Ray as part of the package.

-Mark Gordon

Mike wrote:

> At first glance it looked to be OK, but then I notice that instead of
> saying POV-Ray is free, they say it's freely available.  Hmm...also left
> out where to get it.
>
> So I think you might have found something, but note that using POV-Ray
> commercially is not against the rules.  It's selling it or using it to
> sell another product without notifying people of it's free nature that
> is.  This company isn't quite following the POV legal very closely it
> would seem.
>
> -Mike
>
> Jim Kress wrote:
> >
> > Were you aware of this commercial use to which your code is being put?
> >
> > "HyperChem Raytrace
> > HyperChem Raytrace, together with POV-Ray (a freely available raytracing
> > package), provides facilities for producing high quality ray-traced
> > molecular images from HyperChem. HyperChem Raytrace uses DDE communication
> > with HyperChem to produce input *.POV files for POV-Ray. In order to use
> > HyperChem Raytrace to produce raytraced images, you must also install
> > POV-Ray, which is supplied with the distribution of ChemPlus."
> >
> > Follow this link for more info
> >
> > http://www.hyper.com/products/description/chemplus_features.html
> >
> > Jim Kress

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