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4 Nov 2024 23:17:31 EST (-0500)
  Re: To: The POV team On: Exact terms of the license  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 21 Aug 2003 16:10:04
Message: <MPG.19aed3c8ce14478b989869@news.povray.org>
In article <3f448287$1@news.povray.org>, tho### [at] trfde says...
> In article <pan### [at] yahoocouk> , "Tailkinker" 
> <gro### [at] yahoocouk> wrote:
> 
> > So:  If I roast a copy of the program on CD for a friend, am I legally
> > allowed to place POV-Ray on the CD?
> 
> Let me get this straight:
> 
> You ask if you may burn a freeware program on a CD together with other
> freeware program(s) and give that CD to a friend?
> 
> If this is the question, then the answer is:
> 
> No!!!  By no means you may do so!  The POV-Team will send the police to your
> house.  Get you arrested and put in prison.  Later you will be executed.
> 
> Obviously it is a clear license violation to if you make a physical
> distribution of POV-Ray "for any purpose other than personal sharing".  And
> it is obvious that burning POV-Ray and a bunch of other freeware programs on
> a CD and giving it to a friend must be something else than "personal
> sharing".  I suppose we should call the international war crimes tribunal
> rather than a regular court to handle such a serious crime!
> 
> What other kind of penalty do you expect for making a copy of any freeware
> for a friend?
> 
>     Thorsten
> 

Careful, anyone how had to ask the question in the first place might 
actually take this seriously.

-- 
void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}


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