On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:13:53PM +0700, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 08:58 +0100, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > > > Concerning povray, I had forgotten (or did not realize) > > that it is non-free. I am aware that there are some > > licensing issues with the beta version, but did not > > imagine that the stable version was anything other than > > open source... > > povray releases source code, but has never been free software. There was > a plan to rectify that for povray 4 by relicensing stuff where possible > and rewriting the rest of the code. Last I saw the povray folks haven't > released 3.7,
Yes, but they are working on it. All new code must be released under GPL3+, and 3.7 has seen a semi-rewrite of some core bits from C to C++. Last I checked those bits were buggy as hell though, so I guess that's why they haven't released it yet. -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
