Re: [Mesa3d-dev] GLU tessellator (was something completely OT)

[Olivier M. <Oli...@cy...>]

"James A. Treacy" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 03:43:18PM -0500, Stephen J Baker wrote:
> >
> > Do you think that the more 'pure' Linux distro's like Debian would
> > accept that?  It would be bad if OpenGL applications couldn't rely on
> > the existance of GLU for simple stuff like gluBuildMipMaps just
> > because we don't have a perfect tessellator or whatever.
> >
> Could someone point me to the license for SGI's version?

It's http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB (be careful the first postscript
page seems corrupted, it created many gremlins on my printer, maybe the
.doc version is better).

> If the license does not comply with the Debian Free Software Guidelines
> (DFSG for short)(*) then the GLU library would have to go in non-free.
> 
> Just in case anyone is wondering, I am the Debian maintainer for mesa.
> 
> (*)They are basically the same as the Open Source definition, since the
> Open Source definition is based on the DFSG. See
> http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines for details.

Let us know if you think that this SGI license fits with Debian DFSG.

Thanks,

-Olivier