In article <3c54f538@news.povray.org>,
 "Ben Chambers" <bdc### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> Why would it change?  It's clear and effective.  If it ain't broke, don't
> fix it!

It's also a bit more restrictive than it needs to be. The POV-Team has 
been considering a more flexible one for quite some time now:
http://www.povray.org/3.5-status.html

I've gotten the impression that the existing license is as restrictive 
as it is mainly because of the way some of the contributions to the 
source code have been made. People only gave permission for their code 
(which might also have been used in some commercial product) to be used 
in POV-Ray, so releasing it under an Open Source license is impossible, 
another reason for the 4.0 rewrite. However, this is just my personal 
recollection, not an official statement...

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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>

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