Alex Magidow wrote:
> 
> Couldn't you just disallow code theft in commercial products? That way, you'd
> cultivate a greater amount of freeware programs that'd use POV-Ray's code, which
> would speed along the development of such programs.
> 
> In any case, there's probably something I'm overlooking here. I'm neither a very
> prolific coder nor a lawyer, so I really am not within my domain of knowlege
> here.

The real issue here is that while POV-Ray is open source it is still
the property of the POV-Team. You may modify the source to make a
different version of POV-Ray, you may study the source code for your
own edification, but you may not rip out parts of the source code
to make your own program work. The source code for POV-Ray is the
intellectual property of the POV-Team which grants them the liberty
of imposing any restrictions on it they so choose including copyright
protection under the law both national and international.

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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