On 12 Jan 2000 03:25:41 -0500, Nieminen Juha wrote:
>  Suppose that for purely academical reasons I add some harmful code to
>povray (for example direct support for crypted povray viruses in .pov files)
>and give it to a friend so he can test it too. Does the povlegal require that
>I make the source code public?

I think technically, yes, it does.  If you "distribute" it, you must distribute
it under the provided terms; otherwise, you don't have a license to distribute
it at all.  There's no rule that says you have to advertise it, though, so you
could put it on a publicly available webpage with no links to it, as long as you
provided the URL to anyone who knew to ask.  For that matter, you could just
email it to anyone who wanted it, as I used to do with the superpatch source. 
If nobody knows it exists, nobody will ask for it.

Again, note the disclaimer in the .sig.

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These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.
The superpatch: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/superpatch/
My other stuff: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html

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