On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 20:34:56 -0600 Alex Magidow <axi### [at] mninternet>
wrote:

>...shouldn't a POV-Ray converter just be based off of POV-Ray's
>code, which, since it is open source, could be used for such a purpose(or is
>there something against that in the license?).

  Hi, Alex. POV-Ray is not open source, nor is it public domain. It is
copyrighted freeware. Anyone is free to write their own parser (good
luck!) but the POV-Ray parser code may not be re-used in a third-party
program.

POV-Ray documentation (POVLEGAL.DOC) section 5.1.8:

<snip..>
"The POV-Team does not license source code for any use outside POV-Ray.
No portion of the POV-Ray source code may be incorporated into
another program unless it is clearly a custom version of POV-Ray that
includes all of the basic functions of POV-Ray."
<snip..>

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