On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:11:05 +0200, Fabien Mosen wrote:
> Some of the (numerous) authors of some parts of the POV code
>want to be assured that their (hard) work won't be reincorporated
>in something else without their consent.

Why? If I would contribute some code to POV, I would be more than happy
if my code shows up in other Open Source projects, too. OTOH, if I
contributed something to POV, I would find it only fair if I could use
parts of POV in my other projects.

> That's why most common open-stuff license (GNU,...) aren't
>applicable as-is to POV-Ray.

The GPL is quite good at ensuring that nothing that was ever under the
GPL could ever be "un-GPLed". If povray was under the GPL, yes, somebody
could incorporate the povray parser into a modeller or
povray-to-xml-converter or whatever. But their code would be under the
GPL, too, so if you can use some of the code, you could just incorporate
it into povray.

> Remember that pov is "copyrighted freeware",

RMS would debate the term "freeware" here :-) and GPL software is
copyrighted, too.

	hp

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