Hi,
I have made picture, using the included textures from KPovModeler (they seem
to be equivalent with those from POV-Ray in the "include" directory). I
have copy and pasted some textures to my source code and use them in the
original and modified form in my image. Is there anything I must be caution
before I publish the picture and source code on the web? (I want to send it
to Internet Ray Tracing Competition).
Moreover my picture contains a letter lying on a table, which I wrote with
OpenOffice. I don't know which terms of use regards to the used fonts (or
how to find them out). (I think they were part of the installation of
OpenOffice but I am not 100% sure).
The fonts are visible like someone made a screenshot or printed them out.
Would there be any problem with that?

Thank you.

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TTL nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-06-10 15:17:
> Hi,
> I have made picture, using the included textures from KPovModeler (they seem
> to be equivalent with those from POV-Ray in the "include" directory). I
> have copy and pasted some textures to my source code and use them in the
> original and modified form in my image. Is there anything I must be caution
> before I publish the picture and source code on the web? (I want to send it
> to Internet Ray Tracing Competition).
> Moreover my picture contains a letter lying on a table, which I wrote with
> OpenOffice. I don't know which terms of use regards to the used fonts (or
> how to find them out). (I think they were part of the installation of
> OpenOffice but I am not 100% sure).
> The fonts are visible like someone made a screenshot or printed them out.
> Would there be any problem with that?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
For the fonts, when there is a copy right, it normaly mean that you can't redistribute
the font file 
itself. There should be no problem about an image that contain a representation of
that font. It's 
not the complete set of characters, it's not usable to create another text document,
it's only an 
image of something using it.
To find the copyright info, if using windows, just double click the font's file. You
get a sample 
text at various sizes and on top of it, you have any included information including
any copyright 
notice.

Alain

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Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> TTL nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-06-10 15:17:
> > Hi,
> > I have made picture, using the included textures from KPovModeler (they seem
> > to be equivalent with those from POV-Ray in the "include" directory). I
> > have copy and pasted some textures to my source code and use them in the
> > original and modified form in my image. Is there anything I must be caution
> > before I publish the picture and source code on the web? (I want to send it
> > to Internet Ray Tracing Competition).
Could anyone answer my question?

> For the fonts, when there is a copy right, it normaly mean that you can't
> redistribute the font file
> itself. There should be no problem about an image that contain a
> representation of that font. It's
> not the complete set of characters, it's not usable to create another text
> document, it's only an
> image of something using it.
Thank you.

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TTL wrote:
> Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> 
>>TTL nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-06-10 15:17:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>I have made picture, using the included textures from KPovModeler (they seem
>>>to be equivalent with those from POV-Ray in the "include" directory). I
>>>have copy and pasted some textures to my source code and use them in the
>>>original and modified form in my image. Is there anything I must be caution
>>>before I publish the picture and source code on the web? (I want to send it
>>>to Internet Ray Tracing Competition).
> 
> Could anyone answer my question?

Contact the creators of the textures, POV-Ray's built-in should be fine 
to use AFAIK. Be sure to credit those whose textures you used.

-- 
~Mike

Things! Billions of them!

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