vdbergh wrote:
> 
> The reason I think why Linux distributions do not include OSI incompatible
> software is that they can't make bugfixes. 

That is not true, any Linux distributor is free to apply bugfixes to 
POV-Ray.  The aspects of the POV-Ray license that make it not OSI 
compatible have nothing to do with the interests of Linux distributors.

Note that several well known Linux distribution include POV-Ray which 
contradicts your statement above as well.

> And of course for many
> of them there is a philosophical reason as well.

You probably mean ideological reasons - and at least commercial 
distributors usually can't afford such a luxury.

Christoph

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