FYI I am currenrtly compiling against FreeGlut in my MinGW32 environment and expect that it would just work on Linux and other 'X' platforms
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike > A. Harris > Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 1:17 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Freeglut-developer] As an eerie silence descends ... > > > On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Steve Baker wrote: > > >> As long as freeglut is under an OSI approved license, and _not_ > >> "GPL", it will likely be included in any Linux distributions > >> without problems. > > > >Right - but that way we have to win over a dozen or more distro > >groups/companies - and the users are thrown into chaos and confusion > >as some distro's continue to ship GLUT, others freeglut and yet others > >ship neither. > > Well, I can't speak for other distributions, but I can speak for > Red Hat Linux at least. As long as freeglut has an OSI approved > license, and it is not GPL, assuming it replaces glut well, I > would ship it in Red Hat Linux as the official replacement for > GLUT. I prefer to remove the "GLUT" packages entirely, however > that decision is not yet made, but is very likely. > > So MIT/BSD/LGPL is fine for all purposes to replace GLUT. > However if the license were GPL, then freeglut would not > completely replace GLUT, and we'd be in a bind. I'd either ship > both freeglut and glut, or neither, or just keep the broken glut > that doesn't work with Nvidia's drivers - which would suck. > > > >However, if freeglut were to replace GLUT in Mesa and/or Xfree86, > >then it would immediately replace GLUT in every distribution in > >one fell swoop. > > Not necessarily, but it would likely a stand higher chance of > doing so. I'm not keen on shipping stuff that comes with XFree86 > however if I can package it separately. Having everything built > with XFree86 makes it monolithic and makes it impossible to > release an update for that one subcomponent. ie: If I shipped > freeglut in our XFree86 packages, then I could not update _just_ > freeglut. But that's just a packaging decision made distro to > distro. The benefit of having freeglut in XFree86 sources, is > for systems that do not come with glut or freeglut by default but > which it is needed to compile something in XFree86. > > Another thing you should be aware of, is that in addition to > the license of software included in XFree86 needing to be MIT or > similar, generally things are not added unless something that is > part of the XFree86 build procedure _requires_ it. That is the > case for the majority of things included in XFree86, but there > are some exceptions of course. Being included in Mesa might be > enough to get it into XFree86 though. > > > >GLUT would be obsolete at a stroke - and would completely vanish > >in a couple of years. > > I'd say GLUT is obsolete (for all intents and purposes) 6 months > after we ship our next distro. > > > >Until that happens, it will be hard for application programmers > >to take advantage of the whizzy new features we add. > > Simple solution to that, is to get more software out there > unconditionally relying upon freeglut features not present in > glut. ;o) > > > >The Xfree86 team will ONLY accept Xfree licensed packages. No > >other license - no matter how "compatible" - will be acceptable > >to them. > > There is BSD licensed stuff in XFree86 sources. There are other > exceptions as well, such as the Luxi and Marthudo fonts, which > have restrictions. > > >So - I say again - freeglut is under Xfree and must remain that way. > >End of debate. > > I agree, and wasn't debating that. ;o) I was just commenting on > other people's thoughts about license changes and how that would > affect distribution decisions, XFree86 inclusion and other items. > > There is no good reason IMHO to change the license from MIT. > > > -- > Mike A. Harris > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware > With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. > WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the > same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 > _______________________________________________ > Freeglut-developer mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freeglut-developer > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
