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  Re: Does POV-Ray license prohibit the translation of its documents intoother language?  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 9 Nov 2007 13:55:58
Message: <4734ad3e$1@news.povray.org>

> I like POV-Ray and I think it's a good software to be introduced in my
> home country. But language is a problem for ordinary Chinese people, I
> want to translate all the POV-Ray user-tutorial and user-reference into
> Chinese to help people get into this perfect software with less
> difficulties. I checked the license, there is no separated license for
> its documents' distribution. So I think it may follow that of the code
> as well. Since it's POV-Ray license but not GPL, I read it and found it
> "prohibit the derive from source code". I am confused if translation of
> the document is some kind of derivation too. Could anybody answer me
> this question? Thanks!

It has already been translated to Spanish, and nobody complained about 
it... :)

You could use the povray.international newsgroup to coordinate the 
translations.


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