I think there's a lot of confusion amoung the participants in this thread, 
most likely due to the language barrier.  Here's what I understand Rafal 
was trying to do:
1) Write a CAD program for designing house/building plans.
2) Allow the CAD program to export the drawing as a .pov file.
3) Allow the CAD program to execute POV-Ray with the above file passed in 
and rendered automatically.
4) Be able to distribute both the CAD program *and* POV-Ray on the CD, so 
that the prospective user doesn't have to download POV-Ray themselves.

It seems to me that only number four goes against the POV-Ray license, the 
rest is done by a number of other applications.  But his "distributor" 
won't allow the CAD program to be packaged without POV-Ray.

For what it's worth, I agree with Rafal that this kind of distribution 
should be allowed.  In my mind it's very similar to modern games that 
distribute DirectX on the game CD, or other applications that distribute 
Acrobat Reader on the application CD for eading documentation, etc.

Rich Allen

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