Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> The central question this all leads to is if a rendered image is a
> derived work of the scene (and all include files) it is generated from.
>     I think (but IANAL) that for this it would be necessary that some
> aspect of the scene/include files that is subject to copyright (usually
> this requires a minimum level of originality and individuality) to be
> still present in the rendered image.  How exactly this is defined
> differs between Copyright laws - see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality

I hope this isn't too off topic... But speaking about copyright law, there's
another angle which'll affect this library and it's licensing, and that's
whether a contributer has the right to distribute models which are derived
from real-world objects which in turn may or may not have applicable
copyrights.  E.g. furniture, cars, buildings, houses, just about anything
real that's man-made in the last century or whatever.   Can somebody please
tell me it's ok to make a 3d model of a real table and then share it? :-)

Charles

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