Re: [Mesa3d-users] GLUT license

[tom f. <tf...@al...>]

Sam Geeraerts <sa...@el...> writes:
> "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.

I suspect you'll need Brian to weigh in on the history, but as I recall
there was a TODO about changing the glut included in Mesa to freeglut,
which I imagine has a much more amenable license for your project.  I
can't seem to find it now, though...

Anyway, you might consider subscribing to the -dev list and submitting
a patch to that effect.

-tom