POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : Re: INFO: API for POV-Ray : Re: INFO: API for POV-Ray Server Time
28 Jul 2024 10:27:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: INFO: API for POV-Ray  
From: Chris Cason
Date: 24 Apr 1999 06:00:28
Message: <372287a9.24610031@news.povray.org>
>  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.

-- ChrisC


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