> If you want to take advantage of the POV-Ray parser for
> reading POV files into your conversion program you can only do this by
> writing an unofficial version of POV-Ray and complying with the
> restrictions for such versions made by the licence.

Absolutely.  I would be adding functionality to POV-Ray in an "unofficial
patched version."  I would not remove any code or functionality in the
process.  I have no commercial aspirations whatsoever.  I want this in
support of my hobby web site, which already advertised POV-Ray.

I'm only concerned that the very act of generating secondary graphical data
files from POV-Ray violates the license restrictions on additional APIs.  I
figure to generate ASCII data files in XML format, not APIs, not
ActiveX/COM, not DLLs.  I don't think that this is a violation...

> I personally believe this is an extremely difficult task no matter if done
> as a POV-Ray patch or a separate program.

You betcha.  I figure I'm too ignorant of the issues to be properly scared.
I'm assuming that I'll hack on it for a while, learn a bunch of stuff I
don't know, and give up.  Then again, I can be pretty stubborn at times.

I just want to make sure that IF I get something working I can use it and
(if anyone else cares) redistribute it as an unofficial patched version
according to the license.

Thanks for your comments,
Marc M. Adkins
POV### [at] Doorwaysorg

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