gregjohn wrote:
> Is this process a hint that you're ultimately working on a truly GPL'able
> version of povray?

At no point did the POV-Team ever publicly state that we would release a 
rewrite of POV-Ray under the GPL - to the contrary (search in the newsgroups 
yourself, please).  And there are no plans whatsoever to do anything like 
that for POV-Ray 3.7.  It has clearly been stated in the beta newsgroups 
what features POV-Ray 3.7 contains and it should be really clear that we 
will *not* be rewriting all of POV-Ray.  It has always been made clear that 
the version number of a fully rewritten version of POV-Ray will be 4.0 and 
not some "minor" version number change like 3.7 :-)

> The reason I'm asking is that I've been doing some advocacy to get povray
> included in some linux distros. I've already seen one case where someone
> has misinterpreted the povray license.

Then those who "misinterpreted" it clearly are unable (or unwilling?) to 
read or comprehend plain and simple English :-(  There is little one can do 
about such problems with a license written in English ;-)

	Thorsten

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