[Mesa3d-dev] Re: [Dri-devel] GLUT inclusion?

[Philip W. <pg...@do...>]

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Today, Gareth Hughes wrote:

>Philip Willoughby wrote:
>>
>> As I understand it it's a licensing issue.  glut is released under the strict
>> GPL, and XFree86 is not.
>
>Actually, no, it's not under the GPL.  The NOTICE file is as follows:
>
>NOTICE:  The OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) distribution contains source
>code published in a book titled "Programming OpenGL for the X Window
>System" (ISBN: 0-201-48359-9) published by Addison-Wesley.  The
>programs and associated files contained in the distribution were
>developed by Mark J. Kilgard and are Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 by Mark
>J. Kilgard (unless otherwise noted).  The programs are not in the
>public domain, but they are freely distributable without licensing
>fees.  These programs are provided without guarantee or warrantee
>expressed or implied.
>
>Not the GPL, not the XFree86 (BSD) licence.  IANAL, but basically "it's
>not public domain, and don't sue me" -- to quote Nick Triantos from
>NVIDIA :-)

Ah OK...

Just grepping through the sources, it looks like distributors may need to be
extremely careful (more so than if it was all GPL) since some of the files are
in the public domain, and some are not.  However all of the source files for
libglut.so itself have this at the top:

/* Copyright (c) Mark J. Kilgard, 1994, 1997.  */

/* This program is freely distributable without licensing fees
   and is provided without guarantee or warrantee expressed or
   implied. This program is -not- in the public domain. */

His spelling not mine....

Regards,

Philip Willoughby

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