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Oh wow, POV-Ray was finally open-sourced. I remember playing around with it maybe 15 years ago now. The Internet Ray Tracing Competition[1] was still a going co
by andreareina 9y ago
Oh wow, POV-Ray was finally open-sourced. I remember playing around with it maybe 15 years ago now. The Internet Ray Tracing Competition[1] was still a going concern, and one of the rules was that post-processing was disallowed. So people got motion blur by recompiling the program to average several frames together, which didn't count as post-processing since it was still a ray-tracer that did it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Ray_Tracing_Competition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Ray_Tracing_Competiti...
- Sharlin 9y agoWasn't the source "always" available but just under a custom non-FOSS compatible license? I used to use POV-Ray quite a bit and participated in the IRTC a few times as well. Even 15 years ago the reason for keeping the legacy license was IIRC mostly that it would have been a huge task to get in touch with all the contributors or alternatively to rewrite all the parts that could not have been relicensed.
- andreareina 9y agoYeah the source was available for as long as I used it (hence people being able to hack on it for the motion blur), but always under the no-redistribution license. I wasn't yet very familiar with FOSS but I remember understanding that the source being available was a big deal, and the no-redistribution clause was also a big deal.