Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Re: Thanxs for SGI's GLU 1.3 libs !

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Sven Goethel wrote:
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> On Monday 27 November 2000 17:44, Brian Paul wrote:
> > Olivier Michel wrote:
> > > Sven Goethel wrote:
> > > > Thanxs a lot !
> > > >
> > > > How about integrating the SGI GLU Sources to the Mesa distribution ?
> > > > Did you asked Brian ?
> > >
> > > Yes. Brian told me that he would like to see this SGI GLU integrated
> > > into Mesa in a forthcoming version of Mesa, but I cannot tell you when.
> >
> > I haven't started that work either, yet.
> >
> > > There may be problems with mixing different licenses into a single
> > > package... (SGI OSS license is different from Mesa LGPL, don't ask me
> > > where!).
> >
> > The main Mesa library is not LGPL, it's copyrighted XFree86-style.
> > There are some other components in the Mesa distro such as GLUT, GLU
> > and some drivers which have other copyrights.  It's explained in
> > the docs.
> >
> > The SI GLU copyright is compatible with XFree86 so there should be
> > no problem including the sources with Mesa.  The concern I have is
> > what to do for people who do not have a C++ compiler.  If they
> > can't compile the SI GLU they'll either need to use the old Mesa
> > GLU or find a precompiled library for their system.  And until
> > they solve that, they can't run many of the Mesa demos, etc.
> >
> > -Brian
> 
> Aehem, well, but how about splitting the Mesa distribution from:
>         MesaLib & MesaDemos
> to:
>         MesaLib & (MesaSGIGLU || MesaGLU) & MesaDemos
> 
> where, of course, the MesaSGIGLU is preferred ..

Yes, I might do that.



> another Q: why do you revert the MesaGLU to GLU 1.1 ?

Because there were a few severe bugs in the (unfinished) 1.2
tessellator implementation.

-Brian