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On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 08:59:59 GMT, new### [at] povray org (Chris Cason)
wrote:
>> Any attempt to obscure the fact that the user is running POV-Ray or to
>> obscure that this is an unofficial version expressly prohibited.[1]
>>
>>What is the reasoning behind the further prohibition of things that can be
>>used to break either of the two rules above but could also be used for good?
>
>While I haven't checked the complete text in povlegal.doc, it's probably there
>to stop people from taking an officially-compiled version, and somehow (at run
>time or otherwise), defeating the splash-screen, or running the DOS version in
>an invisible console, or some such.
But that's what the line quoted above does. What I was asking was
why, if that line is already there, is there yet more verbiage later
attempting to prohibit exactly the same thing by way of prohibiting a
much larger set of things, i.e. additional interfaces.
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