In article <web.4152864ccdffb6835c3acc940@news.povray.org> , "vdbergh" 
<vdb### [at] lucacbe> wrote:

> I was wondering if there are still plans to release a version of Povray
> under an OSI compatible license (e.g. the GPL, see www.opensource.org)?

As a matter of policy the POV-Team does not discuss future versions of
POV-Ray, their planned release date or any other feature they may or may not
have.  This includes the licensing.

> Note that it would be perfectly possible for Povray to be licensed both
> under its
> original license and under the GPL. This is for example the case with
> Mozilla
> (which is even triply licensed).

You claim to have read the 3.5 license reasoning, yet you did not understand
it at all:  To change the license to a lesser one, one first needs to have
the right to do so, and obviously the 3.5 license explains very well why
this is not the case.  It should also be common sense that nobody can decide
to give away the work of somebody else for free without asking for
permission first.  Obviously a dual-license cannot change that fact.

    Thorsten

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