Kenneth wrote:
> Those are my sentiments, too. The program is *so* amazing (and I spend so much
> wonderful time at it) that I would like to donate as well. Yet I see the
> logistical problems that have been mentioned here (who to give it to, how it
> would be distributed among POV-team members past and present, etc.)

This matter is internal to the POV-Team so it shouldn't concern us IMO, 
they will find a way to make a simple distribution after programming 
POV-Ray.

> But one thing hasn't been mentioned yet: Say one of us writes a piece of
> commercial software that incorporates POV-Ray as its "rendering engine" (or
> whatever.) If I'm not mistaken, there are legal mechanisms already in place
> whereby the "POV-Ray entity" (corporation, or whatever it is) profits from that
> in some way. So it seems to me that there might be some kind of monetary
> distribution scheme already in place, re: the development team. IF so, I can't
> see how voluntary donations would be much different from that, insofar as how
> the donations might be distributed.
> 
> KW

I've read that one one is to hire 1 or more POV-Team members for 
personalized or modified versions of POV-Ray for comercial or private 
uses, but yeah, that is good but would deviate the POV-Team from their 
main task.

Ironic enough, I have seen donationware that I would ashamed to ask 
money for, also many projects in sourceforge.net are donationware and 
they're rather simple compared to POV-Ray so those and other reasons led 
me to suggest it for POV-Ray.

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