Actually, after reading POVLegal for the first time, I found that there is
no such restriction on suppressing credits & copyright messages.  The
program (if redistributed) must only be freeware, source code publically
available, support it yourself, etc.  In a "custom version", all existing
features must be intact... put banners/copyright into --version or -v
option?  Also, "The source distribution is provided to; ... 2) promote
experimentation and development of new features to the core code which might
eventually be incorporated into the official version."

Finally, POVLegal applies to POV-ray as freeware and not public-domain.
Would POV-ray be public-domain if it were made open-source?

Jason

"Pabs" <pab### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> Warp wrote:
>
> > Steve <ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet> wrote:
> > : Pov already has command line options.
> >
> >   He wasn't talking about command line options but proper return values
>
> 0 for success & 1 for failure?
>
> > and text output (and quietness if no error happened).
>
> Suppressing the credits & copyright messages?
> Sounds contrary to POVLegal to me.
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
> --
> Bye
> Pabs
>

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