POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : sPatch-Seen it around lately? : Re: sPatch-Seen it around lately? Server Time
9 Aug 2024 21:16:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: sPatch-Seen it around lately?  
From: Johannes Hubert
Date: 1 May 2000 12:28:14
Message: <390db09e$1@news.povray.org>
It has been reported several times, that Mike Clifton doesn't own the
copyright to all the code in sPatch (some parts belong to the company he
works for, I think) and thus can not open up sPatch's source.
Which kind of kills that idea...

Johannes.

"Rick [Kitty5]" <kit### [at] dialpipexcom> wrote in message
news:390d8cb9$1@news.povray.org...
> > I have the original sPatch archive if you need it...
>
> maybe you should post it to p.b.u, or maybe see about getting the site
> mirrored on povray.org, afterall, it is one of the best povray tools
ever,
> and unfortunatly development seems to have died off a long time ago.
>
> I have contacted the author a few times enquiring about its status,
and get
> the impression that he is up to his eyeballs with life, and has
neither the
> time or motivation to continue its development, which is a great
shame.
>
> maybe if we can get the right team together, can come to an agreement
with
> the author we can get this stunning peice of work back into main
stream
> development.
>
> Rick
>
>


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