Re: [Glsdk-devel] License

[Branan R. <br...@gm...>]

The ZLIB license is right here: http://zlib.net/zlib_license.html

Just fix the file and copyright info for whatever you're using it for.

Branan

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Henri Häkkinen <hen...@gm...> wrote:
> 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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