POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : parameters in Povray : Re: parameters in Povray Server Time
1 Jun 2024 20:22:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: parameters in Povray  
From: Chris Cason
Date: 2 Nov 2006 10:01:23
Message: <454a0843$1@news.povray.org>
marabou wrote:
> After reading source-license.txt I have understood that it is permitted to
> alter source code in most circumstances. My thoughts are that:
> Every source file has a copyright notice and a reference to povlegal(.doc).
> Every copyright is related to POV team or Persistence of Vision Raytracer
> Pty. Ltd. That is right. If code is altered, copyright holders a not more
> completely correct, because someone has done modifications. It would look
> as modified code would come from team members or, if source is marked
> unofficial, you can not distinguish which codeline is official and which is
> not.

You have a point here; we do not have an official policy on how others should
mark individual files that they have modified. Probably we should put some
thought into this prior to releasing the version 3.7 source code.

-- Chris


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