POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : A Proposal for XML POV : Re: Wild Ideas Server Time
28 Jul 2024 22:31:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Wild Ideas  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 10 Apr 2000 13:49:36
Message: <38f21430$1@news.povray.org>
Nigel Stewart <nig### [at] nigelscom> wrote...
>
> It's a thread that keeps coming back, periodically.
> Maybe one day we can tease out of the POV team, the
> exact reason for the policy. :-)
>

As I understand it, the reason for the "no libraries" policy is to protect
POV-Ray from commercial exploitation.  It may be possible to protect POV
without this limitation, but that will have to be discussed further before
any major changes are made.

-Nathan

(I speak for myself, not for the POV-Team.)


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