POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.programming: Legal Question..

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : Legal Question..		Server Time 23 Dec 2024 22:16:04 EST (-0500)

From: Michael Andersen
Subject: Legal Question..
Date: 18 Feb 2002 00:07:31
Message: <3c708c13@news.povray.org>

Hi all

1. I was wondering if its legal to add support in a commercial product so it
can use PovRay as renderer.
2. IF 1 is legal, would it also be legal if PovRay is modified/bundled, just
as i notices MegaPov / Pov Patches had some rather
    nice inprovments..

3. Is there any legal matters refering to the .pov format, i mean in form
for another app to Import/Export it..

Regards
 Michael

Post a reply to this message

From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: Legal Question..
Date: 18 Feb 2002 03:54:08
Message: <3C70C130.50DFBA45@gmx.de>

Michael Andersen wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> 1. I was wondering if its legal to add support in a commercial product so it
> can use PovRay as renderer.
> 2. IF 1 is legal, would it also be legal if PovRay is modified/bundled, just
> as i notices MegaPov / Pov Patches had some rather
>     nice inprovments..

You should read the Povray licence (povlegal) about this.  Concerning
commercial bundling: Yes, this is possible, but you need explicit
permission by the POV-Team.

> 
> 3. Is there any legal matters refering to the .pov format, i mean in form
> for another app to Import/Export it..
> 

Also said in povlegal IIRC, the use of the POV-SDL is totally free.

Christoph

-- 
POV-Ray tutorials, IsoWood include,                 
TransSkin and more: http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/  
Last updated 06 Feb. 2002 _____./\/^>_*_<^\/\.______

Post a reply to this message

From: Ron Parker
Subject: Re: Legal Question..
Date: 19 Feb 2002 13:25:59
Message: <slrna75667.cbi.ron.parker@fwi.com>

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 06:07:27 +0100, Michael Andersen wrote:
> 2. IF 1 is legal, would it also be legal if PovRay is modified/bundled, just
> as i notices MegaPov / Pov Patches had some rather
>     nice inprovments..

Modifications that extend the available public interfaces are explicitly
disallowed by povlegal.  This means that you could add, for example, a new
object type, but you can't add a COM interface to talk to your app, and you
can't compile POV-Ray as a DLL or ActiveX control or CORBA module or whatever.

-- 
#local R=rgb 99;#local P=R-R;#local F=pigment{gradient x}box{0,1pigment{gradient
y pigment_map{[.5F pigment_map{[.3R][.3F color_map{[.15red 99][.15P]}rotate z*45
translate x]}]#local H=pigment{gradient y color_map{[.5P][.5R]}scale 1/3}[.5F
pigment_map{[.3R][.3H][.7H][.7R]}]}}}camera{location.5-3*z}//only my opinions

Post a reply to this message