On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:56:27 -0700, Twyst <twy### [at] twystednet> wrote:
>
>Mike wrote in message <369### [at] aolcom>...
>>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.
>>
>
>As well.. note the "DDE" interaction comment... DDE is NOT supported by
>Pov-Ray.. so it appears that they modified it as well.

No, DDE is used to communicate between their two components, if I read it
correctly.  As I see it, there are two problems here; three if they didn't
obtain explicit permission from the POV-Team.

(1) The inclusion of POV-Ray should be promoted only as a free bonus and 
not as a feature designed to encourage customers to purchase or upgrade 
solely for the POV-Ray capability. 

(2)Include clear and obvious information on how to obtain the official 
POV-Ray. 

But this isn't really our problem.  Whoever posted the original message 
should bring it to the attention of Chris Young, including URLs and other
contact information if available, and then forget about it and let him
decide what to do with it.

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