POV-Ray 3.7 beta in experimental, but non-redistributable

2010-01-01 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
POV-Ray 3.7 beta is available from povray.org as compiled binaries for Microsoft Windows, and as source code tarballs. It's the first time the developers make source code available during beta development (usually there were only binaries available until the final release). However, the betas

Re: POV-Ray 3.7 beta in experimental, but non-redistributable

2010-01-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 01:55:18AM -0300, Nicolas Alvarez a écrit : Today I found that POV-Ray 3.7 is packaged in experimental: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/povray This seems to violate the beta license in *every possible way*. Here are the restrictions, taken from one of the

Re: POV-Ray 3.7 beta in experimental, but non-redistributable

2010-01-01 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Charles Plessy wrote: Dear Nicolas, indeed, the Debian copyright file of the povray does not mention written permissions from Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd. I think that this is enough to open a Serious bug on the Debian povray package (version 3.7.0~beta29-1). If the povray