Re: [Glsdk-devel] License

[H. H. <hen...@gm...>]

Okay good. If anyone else does not have objections or points, can we
conclude we use the MIT license? Someone post a verbatim copy of the license
here so I can include it to my GLM sources, please.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Jason McKesson <ko...@gm...> wrote:

> zlib (or generally, the MIT license) is usually my default open source
> license, so I'm fine with it. It's also compatible with libpng, glfw,
> and many other utility libraries we might be interested in using.
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Henri Häkkinen <hen...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > Yes indeed we need.
> >
> > I am fine with the zlib-like license. We could also make a modified
> license
> > of our own, based on it.
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Branan Riley <br...@gm...> wrote:
> >>
> >> We've got several files in SVN now with a "TODO: license" line in the
> >> header. I think we need to decide on a license for the code.
> >>
> >> Normally I'm a GPL advocate, but in this case we need to be concerned
> >> with what's best for OpenGL, and I think the GPL is too restrictive in
> >> this case. The dynamic-linking requirement of the LGPL is also
> >> restrictive, especially for the math library (which needs to be
> >> higher-performance than dynamic linking allows).
> >>
> >> I think in this case the zlib/libpng license is a good choice, for a
> >> couple of reasons.
> >>
> >> 1) No usage restrictions. Anyone can use the code for anything.
> >> 2) Simple to read and understand.
> >>
> >> We don't need to decide this immediately, but we should do it soon.
> >> Hopefully we'll have all the baseline code (GLS, GLM, GLE, contexts,
> >> and textures) finished within a couple of weeks. I'd like to do a
> >> "preview release" of the SDK with just those libraries once they're
> >> ready. We definitely need a license figured out before then.
> >>
> >> Branan
> >>
> >>
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