In article <3ce181ad@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>> Unfortunately it has the root of all evil attached to it (even worse it has
>> the 2.0 version attached)
>
>   What? Do you mean it's GPL?

Yes, and it is the "real" GPL version 2.0, not LGPL :-(

>> and it is not suitable for development of truly free
>> programs or any software that matters :-(
>
>   How so?

All the nice new clauses in the 2.0 version of the GPL that allow the FSF (aka
RMS who forced these changed into version 2.0) to change the license as they
see fit against the original authors intent.  For all you know they could
decide to add a "may not be run on a non-GPL operating system" one day...

You know, RMS already decided to call Linux "GNU/Linux"...

    Thorsten

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