POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : The License : Re: The License Server Time
9 Aug 2024 23:25:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The License  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 22 Apr 2000 11:27:24
Message: <3901c4dc@news.povray.org>
In article <3901a05b@news.povray.org> , "Bill DeWitt" 
<the### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

>
> "Rene Horn" <haw### [at] crosswindsnet> wrote in message
> news:390### [at] crosswindsnet...
>> I'm wondering why the POV license doesn't conform to the Debian Free
>> Software Guidelines
>
>     Because it is their work and they don't want to...?
>

It should also be clear that POV-Ray is _older_ (1991) than the Debian
license (1997) - a lot of people tend to forget that free(ware) software did
not start with Linux and its distributions.


      Thorsten


PS: The usual disclaimer applies. Speaking for myself, not for the team.


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