Given the largely non-commercial nature of POV-Ray materials such as models
and SDL scripts, little attention has been given so far regarding the sort
of licences that would best protect the use and diffusion of such materials
(though I know that similar threads exist somewhere in the 50000 messages in
p.general...). However, with mesh modelers becoming more mainstream in the
POV-Ray community, it is becoming obvious that some POV-Ray material could
start to attain a true commercial value once converted to another format, so
the question is becoming a little more acute than before.

What sort of licence would best cover the most basic needs of the people who
would like to share freely what they create for POV-Ray while having some
minimal legal protection from potential abuse? These sort of questions have
been cropping up recently in my mailbox, so I'd be interested in hearing
what people think, for instance, of GPL
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html), Creative Commons
(http://creativecommons.org/) or other similar systems in the particular
context of POV-Ray models and scripts.

Of course, people who are both POV-Ray users and lawyers specialised in
international IP law are particularly welcome!

G.

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