Re: [Freeglut-developer] Spaceball Support

[Stephen J B. <sj...@li...>]

Fay John F Contr AFSEO/SK wrote:
> Steve,
> 
>         First, can you send me a copy of your spaceball code?  Let me 
> start by trying to reverse-engineer it.

It was a long time ago - I doubt that I could still find it.  However,
take a look at the GLUT code. That's where the information for my
implementation came from.

> [Jim Wick] If you have a file, like a readme, that acknowledges code 
> from third party sources, that would be a sufficient place to a 
> one-liner.  If not, don't worry about it.  I'm more concerned about 
> getting you up and running.

That sounds like they don't really care.  We should say "We're happy
to put an accreditation into our README (although 'AUTHORS' might be
a better place), but we can't require our users to retain that note
when they redistribute freeglut.  Is that acceptable?"

> All that said, I am completely with you on not restricting the 
> "freeglut" license.  If they require that our users add the 
> acknowledgement, then I say no we don't support their hardware.

Cool.

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