Re: [Mesa3d-users] GLUT license

[Brian P. <br...@vm...>]

Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I contribute to gNewSense, which aims to be a fully Free distro. We have
> this bug report [1] about the file glut.h in Mesa. The issue is that
> Mark J. Kilgard did not give permission to modify the file in his
> original license notice. This was reported and solved for the GLUT
> package in Debian [2]. So now we're wondering how this applies to Mesa.
> 
> I've contacted FSF Licensing Lab about it and they said:
> 
> "Please be careful not to read the notice any further than it goes.  In
> particular: it only applies to what Mark wrote, and it only applies to
> whatever code of his existed in libglut when he sent his reply to
> Debian.  Nothing anybody else wrote, and nothing that wasn't in libglut
> at the time."
> 
> So if we can show that your glut.h was initially based on that of the 
> GLUT package then we'd be a big step closer to a solution. I've compared 
> the GLUT 3.7 tarball [3] to your initial commit [4], but there are some 
> differences.
> 
> Could you help the gNewSense project (and other free distros) with this? 
> Thanks.
> 
> [1] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00365
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=131997
> [3] ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/opengl/glut/
> [4] 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/plain/include/GL/glut.h?id=afb833d4e89c312460a4ab9ed6a7a8ca4ebbfe1c

I think the simple answer for you here is to simply use freeglut 
instead of the Kilgard glut in Mesa.

The Mesa releases ares split up so that Mesa, glut and the demos are 
separate:

MesaLib-7.7.tar.gz
MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.gz
MesaDemos-7.7.tar.gz

Just don't use MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.gz

-Brian