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Chris Cason schrieb:
> [Followups set to povray.general]
> 
> 1 February 2007
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> 
> The following is a joint announcement from Persistence of Vision Raytracer
> Pty. Ltd. ('POV'), Lutz Kretzschmar (Lutz) and Markus Lutz (Markus).
> 
> Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd. is pleased to advise that it has
> acquired the rights to the 3d modeller 'Moray' from Lutz and Markus. Moray is
> a Windows program specifically designed to create 3d models and scenes to be
> used with the POV-Ray raytracer, and was originally sold as trialware.
> 
> POV will, in due course, re-issue Moray under a new name and new license. The
> license has not been decided on with finality, but will be OSI-approved. [POV
> is planning to release it under the GPLv3 but this decision is subject of
> course to review of the final version of that license.]
> 
> The POV-Team is continuing development on version 3.7, which is the last
> planned major release of the current POV-Ray codebase prior to version 4.0.
> 
> Version 4.0 will be released under an OSI-approved license. POV has not
> decided on which license will be chosen at this stage. Those portions of the
> codebase that are not already re-releasable under an OSI license will, prior
> to the release of 4.0, be re-written so as to permit them to be released
> under one. Some of the 'new to version 3.7' codebase is already able to be
> released under both the old and newly-chosen license.
> 
> The current version 3.7 development codebase will be made publicly available
> at around the same time as the Moray codebase. This will allow the public to
> assist, if they wish, in completing version 3.7 of POV-Ray and will also
> assist in the transition to 4.0. POV hopes to be able to announce the final
> 4.0 license choice at this time.
> 
> There is no schedule for the release of 4.0. It will primarily depend on the
> amount of public assistance that is received in re-writing non-OSI-licensable
> code.
> 
> Lutz and Markus have their own announcement available on their news page,
> which can be found at http://www.stmuc.com/moray/menews.html.
> 
> The text of this announcement itself can be found on the POV-Ray site at
> http://www.povray.org/news/moray-announcement.php.
> 
>

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