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POV-Ray illustrates complexity of changing licenses

by nick on January 26, 2006. Filed under Desktop, Interviews, News

NewsForge talks with Klaus Knopper about how different open source software licenses impact Knoppix derivatives.

Knoppix, one of the distributions specifically permitted to redistribute POV-Ray, doesn’t include the raytracer. Knoppix creator Klaus Knopper said he is concerned that either he, or someone who creates a Knoppix derivative, could run into trouble with the license.

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POV-Ray illustrates complexity of changing licenses

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