Andrew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> Ok,
> 
> I finally, gotmy GUIEXT working that can run POV-Ray for Windows 3.5 from
> the command-line, and let POV stay in the background.  I need to test it a
> little more, and add a couple of minor DLL calls, but other than that it's
> pretty much done.
> 
> Here's my question.  I've never actually released software to the public
> before, and I'd like to do this in a way, that won't allow people to abuse
> POV-Ray.  How do I go about setting up a license agreement, etc?  I'd also
> like to have someone on the POV team look at it before I released it, so
> they can have some input.  It still requires POV to start and show it's
> splash screen once, but after that POV is happy to remain in the background.

I think it's a good idea in general.  I would make the program print a
text similar to the one generated by the command line version.  I don't
know much about the GUI extensions, but printing the statistics after the
render would also be a good idea if possible.

Christoph

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