Re: glut license (was Re: [Fink-devel] MD5)

2003-04-02 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 17:43, David R. Morrison wrote: I looked at glut, and I guess there is some ambiguity in the sentence The programs are not in the public domain, but they are freely distributable without licensing fees. From /usr/share/doc/libglut3/copyright on my Debian system:

Re: glut license (was Re: [Fink-devel] MD5)

2003-04-01 Thread Max Horn
Am Dienstag, 01.04.03 um 03:49 Uhr schrieb Ben Hines: On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 05:33 PM, Matt Stephenson wrote: On Tuesday, Apr 1, 2003, at 11:17 Australia/Sydney, Ben Hines wrote: On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 02:16 AM, Matt Stephenson wrote: I tend towards 'Restrictive/Distributable'

Re: glut license (was Re: [Fink-devel] MD5)

2003-04-01 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Dienstag, April 1, 2003, at 03:49 Uhr, Ben Hines wrote: snip distribution is allowed without license. To cut things short. I ran this by our lawyers and here is what they said: This type of license indicates that you may distribute the

Re: glut license (was Re: [Fink-devel] MD5)

2003-03-31 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 02:16 AM, Matt Stephenson wrote: I tend towards 'Restrictive/Distributable' because nothing is mentioned specifically in the glut license about distributing binaries, its just a general statement or maybe I'm being to picky. Many licenses don't mention binaries.

Re: glut license (was Re: [Fink-devel] MD5)

2003-03-31 Thread Matt Stephenson
On Tuesday, Apr 1, 2003, at 11:17 Australia/Sydney, Ben Hines wrote: On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 02:16 AM, Matt Stephenson wrote: I tend towards 'Restrictive/Distributable' because nothing is mentioned specifically in the glut license about distributing binaries, its just a general

Re: glut license (was Re: [Fink-devel] MD5)

2003-03-30 Thread Matt Stephenson
Hi Dave, Must of had a esp moment as I had just drafted an email to you regarding the glut license field, I will add a 'Restrictive/Distributable' licence field to it sometime today as I also have to add a missing 'BuildDependsOnly: True' field to it as well. Matt On Monday, Mar 31, 2003, at

Re: glut license (was Re: [Fink-devel] MD5)

2003-03-30 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 02:43 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: (Depends on whether it means that people don't have to pay the author a licensing fee, or that distributors are prevented from collecting licensing fees.) Actually, I think that clearly means that they letting you distribute it