You are free:
- to use, copy, display and distribute the POV-Ray™ scene files and include files distributed as part of POV-Person™ in their entirety or in part
- to make derivative works in POV-Ray™ Screen Definition Language (SDL) format or in any other format
- to generate images using the supplied scene files, the include files or any works that you have derived from the supplied files
- to use, copy, display and distribute images generated from the supplied files
Under the following conditions:
- For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
- Derivative works that you generate must be licensed under conditions that do not in any way remove or reduce the users rights to use the POV-Person™ distribution or any parts of POV-Person™ that are included in your distribution.
- Images generated using POV-Person™ are basically your own work, but appropriate credit needs to be given for the original artistic creativity encapsulated within the POV-Person™ files.
- Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the POV-Person team.
To clarify the meaning of derived works:
The POV-Person™ distribution contains scene files, include files, documents and images. Most of the original artistic content is contained within the include files which can be used from a scene file to generate images. You can use the include files by adjusting parameters in a scene file to generate new and unique images. You can also modify or replace some or all of the include files used to generate your image.- If you create a scene file that calls unaltered include files using parameters you have set in your scene file then the copyright on the scene file is yours (even though some of the parameter settings may have been copied from the sample scene files in the POV-Person™ distribution). The include files continue to be copyright as part of the POV-Person™ distribution. You hold the copyright for the images, but appropriate credit should be given for the artistic contribution that the POV-Person™ distribution has made to the finished work.
- If you modify an include file then it becomes a derived work. For example if you take the mesh object that defines the ear and alter it, it becomes a derived work. If you add a new hairstyle to the hairstyle.inc file then the new file becomes a derived work.
- If you replace an include file with one of your own based upon the principles of the POV-Person™ files then you still retain the copyright to that file.
Author: Chris Bartlett
E-Mail: mailto:c_bartlett@btconnect.com
Last revised: 14 Aug 2004 (CB)