Ok,
I have great respect for Povray and I am using it myself (on Linux).
The reason I think why Linux distributions do not include OSI incompatible
software is that they can't make bugfixes. And of course for many
of them there is a philosophical reason as well.
It was not my intention to sound aggressive or anything. I realize one
cannot
relicense the work of unknown authors. But there is also the opposite issue.
Many developers these days would not want to contribute to software with
a proprietary license...
The 3.5 license seemed to indicate that a rewrite was underway of the parts
of Povray with unknown author. In the 3.6 license this part has gone. I was
just curious why this was the case.
Best regards,
Michel
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