Pabs wrote:
> 
> Suppressing the credits & copyright messages?
> Sounds contrary to POVLegal to me.
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
> --
> Bye
> Pabs

There are principles behind POVLegal, and this
copyright file in fact lists the rules that are
deduced from these principles.

One of these is that the presence of POV-Ray
should not be hidden to the user. No one is to
create a program and make the user believe the
3D-rendering part is his own work.

The rules that derive from this principle are:

 * you can't turn POV-Ray to a DLL, because then
people would think the author of the front-end
(e.g. a modelling software) to also be the author
of the "part that does the 3D stuff".

 * you can't run a web interface to POV-Ray
without saying prominently that this is POV-Ray.
Once again, so that people know who did the "hard"
work.

 * probably others I don't remember.

Now, we want to see if making POV-Ray sort-of
"GNU-compliant" as for the command line is
compliant with the principle. Because indeed
it "could" hide the fact that POV-Ray is called
inside a script.

If it is, I don't think there will be much
trouble. If fear arises that some wording in
POVLegal is against that, perhaps this can
be discussed with someone of the POV team.

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One way to achieve that, I think, is to allow the
user, for each of the seven text streams, to choose
between a file, stderr, or stdout. You could then
choose in your shell scripts (or makefile, but I'm
not experienced in that) to send stdout or stderr
to /dev/null.

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