In article <3F55CBF3.EFD4665F@gmx.de> , Christoph Hormann 
<chr### [at] gmxde>  wrote:

> Generating high dynamic range output from POV-Ray is not possible
> without quite intensive modifications since POV-Ray clips colors soon
> after rendering and this prevents usable HDR output.

Which is why anybody who wants to add something like this should wait for
3.5.1 source code, which contains the necessary changes to clip much later.

>> but here is the patch so far (it is released under the terms of the GPL2
>> License http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html )
>
> Note the GPL is not compatible to the POV-Ray licence.  You can for sure
> publish your patch under GPL but no one will be allowed to distribute it
> as either complete souce or binary -> it will be quite unusable in
> practice.

Indeed, the two licenses are completely incompatible.  Distributing the
source code for one or the other of course does not create any conflicts,
but distributing the source code (or binary) as a whole would surely violate
both licenses.

    Thorsten

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