Hi,

I just saw that api/texfont.cpp[1] and api/texfont.h and files on
samples/glut/ are having a custom copyright header differening from the main
COPYING file. 

> /* 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. */

which unfortunately isn't saying about the right to modify. So the
files non-modifiable and so non-distributable with the whole gpl-ed
package. 

The author actually, "meant" a simple bsd-like license but the
license as it is on the source code is non-free.. 
        
chromium-bsu had the very same issue[2], and they resolved this by
replacing texfonts with ftgl. 

These are pretty old files, written by Mark J. Kilgard and Nate Robins.
and as seen on the debian bug comments[2], Mark have been contacted for the
same issue on texfont.cpp, but they couldn't get it cleared out from
him. 

I am not yet familiar with boinc code and actually found boinc on a
blacklist. So I thought to ask here to resolve the issue.

Regards
Shyam K


[1] http://boinc.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/boinc/api/texfont.cpp
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467123.  


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