On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:54:54PM -0300, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> On 07/07/2010, David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The issue (if there is one) is the BOINC screensaver, which uses texfont.
> >
> > I'm happy to keep the status quo
> 
> Well, I think Debian will have to remove the graphics API (or at least
> this file)

This issue has already being discussed[1] in one thread that started because the
ATI/AMD's code for CUDA.

Personally, I did not take any action on this since there was not consensus, on
the list, if a bug comes up we should have move the package to non-free or 
remove
this files.

> I should let them know that this single file or even the whole api/
> directory can be safely removed without technical consequences to the
> client...

Great news!. If you can send a patch or if you will like to commit it by 
yourself
just poke me :)

> > and hope that at some point
> > Mark Kilgard releases his code under BSD or similar.
> 
> I wouldn't hold my breath. This is what happened trying to get Mark to
> cooperate about GLUT:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=131997#52

Indeed

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/01/msg00000.html


Regards

--
René Mayorga
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