Alan Kong wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 20:34:56 -0600 Alex Magidow <axi### [at] mninternet>
> wrote:
>
> >...shouldn't a POV-Ray converter just be based off of POV-Ray's
> >code, which, since it is open source, could be used for such a purpose(or is
> >there something against that in the license?).
>
>   Hi, Alex. POV-Ray is not open source, nor is it public domain. It is
> copyrighted freeware. Anyone is free to write their own parser (good
> luck!) but the POV-Ray parser code may not be re-used in a third-party
> program.
>
> POV-Ray documentation (POVLEGAL.DOC) section 5.1.8:
>
> <snip..>
> "The POV-Team does not license source code for any use outside POV-Ray.
> No portion of the POV-Ray source code may be incorporated into
> another program unless it is clearly a custom version of POV-Ray that
> includes all of the basic functions of POV-Ray."
> <snip..>

Thanks for clearing that up...so, if teh converter has a renderer, then its
fine?<G>

>
>
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