Tim Attwood wrote:
> POV enumerates "the four freedoms" but doesn't use the same
> legal language as GPL.

I need to spend more quality time with the license, then, because I'm 
not seeing it. :-P

> Essentially it doesn't matter what POV's
> license is if you use the separate functionality equals separate
> programs argument.

Except that the GPL doesn't allow this argument, unless the program is 
distributed as a separate binary.

> Additionally, POV is specifically allowed to be distributed in conjunction
> with any free operating system licensed by FSF, and GPL
> specifically provides an exception for such code. (Even though POV
> has not been actually distributed that way to my knowledge, it could
> be considered to be covered by this.)

Uh, I don't think that exactly applies to Pov and GPL code mixing in the 
same binary.

> I believe some magazine distributed a partial copy of POV
> that didn't work right, along with the phone number of one
> of the POV team as a support number. *RING* *RING*
> *RING* *RING* *RING*

Um, eew. :-P

-- 
William Tracy
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You know you've been raytracing too long when you have ever said "I 
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Stephan Ahonen

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