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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Soon to be lost GeoCities pages
Date: 24 Sep 2009 10:17:10
Message: <4abb7f66$1@news.povray.org>
Stephen wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:05:26 -0300, nemesis <nam### [at] nospam-gmailcom>
> wrote:
> 
>> Stephen wrote:
>>> That's a good idea. Although it is not on Geocities I could not download Nathan
>>> Kopps' Lens  Flare, last night. Yet another utility lost.
>> nkflare5.zip here on my HD. :)
>>
> 
> Keep hold of it. I must have a copy somewhere but defiantly not to hand.

Some time ago I decided it'd be a good idea to put my hands on as many 
as available good povray source code out there to begin a collection. 
I've scanned the usual suspects (Colefax, Gilles, Jaime, Hormann etc) 
but was overwhelmed when deciding to also put p.t. and pb. source-files 
in consideration.  There's definitely good stuff in there, but too much 
for a guy alone to excavate... :P


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Soon to be lost GeoCities pages
Date: 24 Sep 2009 12:13:04
Message: <ch6nb51iiml9am3roheakjpm69j8e1fm26@4ax.com>
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:35:52 -0300, nemesis <nam### [at] nospam-gmailcom>
wrote:

>> Keep hold of it. I must have a copy somewhere but defiantly not to hand.
>
>Some time ago I decided it'd be a good idea to put my hands on as many 
>as available good povray source code out there to begin a collection. 
>I've scanned the usual suspects (Colefax, Gilles, Jaime, Hormann etc) 
>but was overwhelmed when deciding to also put p.t. and pb. source-files 
>in consideration.  

Does a Hilbert Hotel/HDD have an index? :-)

>There's definitely good stuff in there, but too much 
>for a guy alone to excavate... :P

Tell me about it :-)
-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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From: Chris B
Subject: Re: Soon to be lost GeoCities pages
Date: 24 Sep 2009 12:55:35
Message: <4abba487@news.povray.org>
"nemesis" <nam### [at] nospam-gmailcom> wrote in message 
news:4abb7e50$1@news.povray.org...
> Chris B wrote:
>>
>> "nemesis" <nam### [at] nospam-gmailcom> wrote in message 
>> news:4abb4e14@news.povray.org...
>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>> That's a good idea. Although it is not on Geocities I could not 
>>>> download Nathan
>>>> Kopps' Lens  Flare, last night. Yet another utility lost.
>>>
>>> nkflare5.zip here on my HD. :)
>>>
>>> It should be awesome if they got into the Povray Object Collection...
>>
>> Is there anything in the zip that authorises redistribution?
>> Otherwise you could try contacting the author to see if he'd by ok with 
>> it being put out on a CC-LGPL license (ie if he's ok with royalty free 
>> redistribution for both private and commercial purposes).
>
> NKFlare is provided free of charge.You may freely distribute it....

Is this a Macro, or an Include file? or is this a patch or an external 
application/utility for post-processing images?

If it's a macro or include file or some SDL stuff, then it's probably worth 
trying to contact Nathan to see if we can load it up onto the Object 
Collection on an LGPL license which explicitly authorises 'for-profit' use, 
so would need more permission than is in the text you found.

Otherwise that text allows you to load it up onto a web site under the terms 
and conditions from that file, without you needing to seek any further 
consent.

Regards,
Chris B.


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Soon to be lost GeoCities pages
Date: 24 Sep 2009 14:15:10
Message: <4abbb72e@news.povray.org>
Chris B escreveu:
> 
> "nemesis" <nam### [at] nospam-gmailcom> wrote in message 
> news:4abb7e50$1@news.povray.org...
>> Chris B wrote:
>>>
>>> "nemesis" <nam### [at] nospam-gmailcom> wrote in message 
>>> news:4abb4e14@news.povray.org...
>>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>>> That's a good idea. Although it is not on Geocities I could not 
>>>>> download Nathan
>>>>> Kopps' Lens  Flare, last night. Yet another utility lost.
>>>>
>>>> nkflare5.zip here on my HD. :)
>>>>
>>>> It should be awesome if they got into the Povray Object Collection...
>>>
>>> Is there anything in the zip that authorises redistribution?
>>> Otherwise you could try contacting the author to see if he'd by ok 
>>> with it being put out on a CC-LGPL license (ie if he's ok with 
>>> royalty free redistribution for both private and commercial purposes).
>>
>> NKFlare is provided free of charge.You may freely distribute it....
> 
> Is this a Macro, or an Include file? or is this a patch or an external 
> application/utility for post-processing images?
> 
> If it's a macro or include file or some SDL stuff, then it's probably 
> worth trying to contact Nathan to see if we can load it up onto the 
> Object Collection on an LGPL license which explicitly authorises 
> 'for-profit' use, so would need more permission than is in the text you 
> found.
> 
> Otherwise that text allows you to load it up onto a web site under the 
> terms and conditions from that file, without you needing to seek any 
> further consent.

Yes, it's a zip with several include files, examples etc.  I downloaded 
it and many others, but never used. :)

It's still a backup just in case... I could even help our friend Sven 
with one of his lost scenes... :D

-- 
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From: Chris B
Subject: Re: Soon to be lost GeoCities pages
Date: 25 Sep 2009 07:53:52
Message: <4abcaf50@news.povray.org>
"nemesis" <nam### [at] nospam-gmailcom> wrote in message 
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> Chris B wrote:
>> As Thomas mentions there's quite a lot from Chris Colefax. Anyone know if 
>> he's still around?
>
> http://www.colefax.net/
>
> Not sure it's the same guy, but there's an email down in that page.

It looks like the same Chris Colefax, because there's a very similar page on 
geocities, but the one you've found contains an email that's 5 years more 
recent.

I'll give it a go.

Regards,
Chris B.


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