Nicolas Alvarez schrieb:
> clipka wrote:
>   
>> Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
>>     
>>>> Maybe the more modular architecture of POV-Ray 3.7 will lead to
>>>> development of more elegant APIs for some frameworks
>>>>         
>>> I think the main problem was that the license does not
>>> (yet?) allow to integrate POV-Ray as a library.
>>>       
>> It doesn't prohibit writing a customized version that provides an API in
>> *addition* to the command-line and GUI interfaces.
>>     
>
> "Neither the Licensed Version nor any Modified Version may be linked into
> any other software package either at compile-time using (for example) an
> object code linker nor at run-time as (for example) a DLL

This *does* indeed prohibit distributing such a Modified Version as part 
of a *software package*; however, to my understanding it does *not* 
prohibit creating a Modified Version that just adds an API in order to 
empower end-users to drive it from VB.

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