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1 Aug 2024 22:23:36 EDT (-0400)
  Redistribution Question  
From: Dave Matthews
Date: 21 Mar 2005 16:30:00
Message: <web.423f3b0896c6af6c60764f0f0@news.povray.org>
I've read the license agreement, but I'm sometimes (or frequently) dense as
regards legalese, so I want to get the OK from someone on the POV Team
before going ahead with this:

I'm giving a presentation at an upcoming conference of Kindergarten through
Junior College math teachers in Minnesota (I'm guessing most of my audience
will be teachers of grades 9 - 14, as we count them in the States),
demonstrating how to use POVRay to create images and animations for their
classrooms.  Because so many of our participants are at rural schools,
without broadband access, I want to include a CD with POVRay, as well as a
few other applications whose authors' approval I've already obtained, on
it.  This way I can also include a bunch of my own example files and
include files, as well as a page of links to really good tutorials, like
those of Christoph Hormann, Freidrich Lohmueller, and Mike Williams.  I
plan to include a readme file with the following statement (I've excerpted
the important part for POVRay):

"The following software is included on this CD, which is being freely
distributed, and is intended solely for educational, non-commercial
purposes.  I have read the licensing agreements, when available, and have
listed the websites of the sources, below.  No copying or redistribution of
any of the included software should be done without first consulting the
appropriate source and license, available either in the distributed
software, or at the websites listed below.  You should always check the
sources to find the latest versions of the software.  Several licensing

information, so here it is:

Dave Matthews
Minnesota West Community and Technical College
etc. "

These CDs will be given away free, and as I read the POVRay license, this
should fall under 3.1(c) of the distribution license.  Am I right, or am I
misreading something?  Also, am I missing anything that I should say in the
readme?

Again, I just want to double-check to be safe.  If there are problems with
this, I'll just have them download their own copies.

Thanks, and sorry for a question that definitely falls into the R.T.F.L.A.
category.  But if I R.T.F.M. incorrectly, I can tell by the fact that my
scene renders incorrectly or not at all, whereas if I R.T.F.L.A.
incorrectly, there's no way to know that I'm wrong -- until a team of
lawyers comes a-knocking.

Dave Matthews


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