POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.programming: Legal Question..: Re: Legal Question..

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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 18 Feb 2002 03:54:08
Message: <3C70C130.50DFBA45@gmx.de>

Michael Andersen wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> 1. I was wondering if its legal to add support in a commercial product so it
> can use PovRay as renderer.
> 2. IF 1 is legal, would it also be legal if PovRay is modified/bundled, just
> as i notices MegaPov / Pov Patches had some rather
>     nice inprovments..

You should read the Povray licence (povlegal) about this.  Concerning
commercial bundling: Yes, this is possible, but you need explicit
permission by the POV-Team.

> 
> 3. Is there any legal matters refering to the .pov format, i mean in form
> for another app to Import/Export it..
> 

Also said in povlegal IIRC, the use of the POV-SDL is totally free.

Christoph

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