[Mesa3d-users] GLUT license

[Sam G. <sa...@el...>]

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