Re: [Glsdk-devel] License

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Henri Häkkinen 
  To: gls...@li... 
  Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [Glsdk-devel] License


  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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