On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 13:52:07 +0800, Pabs wrote:
>> - The API.  The current restrictions on the API are derived from the
>> POV-Ray license.  Many people have contributed code to POV-Ray under the
>> current license, and many of them are not easy to track down.  The
>> POV-Team feels it would be a disservice to those who contributed code
>> under the current license to rerelease that code under a less
>> restrictive license. The rewrite for 4.0 may give us the opportunity to
>> revise the license significantly.  Or not.  We'll see.
>
>IMHO the licence should be kept as is - you are not being stopped (as far as
>I can tell) from writing a version of povray that can do what you want -
>expose an API that is.

We aren't.  Y'all are.  It's in the license.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

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