On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:16:08PM +0100, Sven Panne wrote: > Ross Paterson wrote: > > According to fptools/libraries/GLUT/Graphics/UI/GLUT.hs, the documentation > > of the GLUT package is derived from a document with the notice > > > > > Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by Mark J. Kilgard, Silicon Graphics, Inc. > > > No part of this documentation may be reproduced, in any form or by any > > > means, without permission in writing from the original author. > > > > Do you have this permission, and if so what are its limits? > > No, I haven't been able yet to contact Mark Kilgard in any way. I've > tried several times, but never received an answer, neither positive > nor negative. I've sent mails directly to Mark's current company, NVIDIA, > and tried to contact him via 'Mr. OpenGL' himself, John Leech at SGI, > without avail. > > Other projects (Mesa, several other OpenGL bindings, ...) simply use > the documentation rather unchanged, but obviously don't care about > legal issues. The HOpenGL-GLUT docs are *not* simply a cut-n-paste job, > the API is quite different from the C API, so I finally got a bit fed up > with this legal issue... >:-(
I don't see this as a legal issue -- his wishes are dreadfully clear, unless we hear to the contrary. It is very inconvenient, but that's not the same thing. > I'm a little bit clueless about how to proceed. Perhaps I should nuke > the above passage from the documentation and replace it with credits > to Mark. I'm afraid that nothing but removing all of Mark Kilgard's words would respect his wishes. I know that's terrible, but I see no alternative. _______________________________________________ Cvs-libraries mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-libraries
