"Christopher R. Bowman" wrote:
>
> At 07:42 PM 5/20/99 -0700, Jon Taylor wrote:
> >Brian Paul wrote:
> >>
> >> Jon Taylor wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I cannot build any of the demos due to include/GL/glut.h being
> >> > missing. Is anyone else seeing this?
> >>
> >> GLUT isn't in CVS. I asked Mark Kilgard for permission a while back
> >> but didn't get a reply. I'll ask again. In the mean time, use the
> >> GLUT files from 3.0 or 3.1 beta 1.
> >
> >>From the header:
> >
> >/* Copyright (c) Mark J. Kilgard, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998. */
> >
> >/* 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. */
> >
> >
> >Doesn't look to me like you need his permission....
>
> Actually I would say just the opposite. Since it is copyrighted you have no
> rights to do anything except
> 1) those granted to you under the fair use doctrine
> 2) those things the copyright holder allows via a license.
>
> the only license I see is what you provided above which gives you only the
> right to distribute, not to modify (or to run, but one could argue that that is
> a fair use). So while you could put it into the CVS repo, there wouldn't be
> much point since you don't have a right to modify or redistribute those
> modifications.
There would be the point that it is a lot more convenient to distribute
glut.h with the rest of the mesa sources. Just throw a README.COPYING
or something into its directory if you want to make _sure_ that people
realize that the file should not be modified or put a no-commit lock on
it in CVS or something.
Jon
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