Re: Discussion - non-free software removal

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Brian May 

| As far as I can tell, there is no free equivelent of these packages:
| 
| povray                    Persistence of Vision raytracer
| povray-doc                Persistence of Vision raytracer
| povray-misc               Persistence of Vision raytracer - include files
| 
| No do I know of any free project to replace them...
| 
| (please tell me if one does exist though).

http://www.povray.org/povlegal.html :

: WHY ISN'T POV-RAY OPEN SOURCE ?
: 

[...]

: Therefore, POV- Ray? will remain on this existing license until we
: do a full re-write (which is intended for v4), at which time a new
: license will be instituted that is far more liberal in terms of
: reuse.

So, they are rewriting it themselves, but a full rewrite of such a
raytracer takes some time, it seems.

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