On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Mark Rowe <mr...@apple.com> wrote: > > On 2010-12-22, at 13:27, David Levin wrote: > > Sounded like MIT license is considered permittable: > https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2010-January/011406.html > > The code in question is labeled as being under "SGI FREE SOFTWARE LICENSE > B". According to the Internets this is very similar, but not identical, to > the MIT license. If it were identical to the MIT license then I agree > there'd be precedent within the WebKit project for accepting such code. > It's not identical though.
Not sure whether you saw http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/ , but it explains that the license is intended to mirror the X11 license exactly and why they revised the previous version of their license rather than switching licenses. -Ken > - Mark > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Kenneth Russell <k...@google.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Mark Rowe <mr...@apple.com> wrote: >> > >> > On 2010-12-22, at 10:45, Kenneth Russell wrote: >> > >> > I see. The GLU tessellator was integrated because it was the only >> > viable option for helping implement GPU-accelerated path rendering in >> > WebKit. (This work is still in early stages, and the tessellator isn't >> > yet being compiled in to WebKit.) The code is covered by an MIT X11 >> > style license which is compatible with the BSD license WebKit uses. >> > >> > I'm not a lawyer so I can't speak to the compatibility of the various >> > open >> > source licenses. I will note however that the committer agreement that >> > all >> > committers have signed explicitly states that only the BSD and LGPL >> > licenses >> > are permitted for code checked in to the WebKit repository. >> >> I apologize, I didn't mean to violate the WebKit committer agreement. >> There was extensive discussion on IRC and in person before checking in >> this and related code. If its continued presence poses a problem then >> please let's try to figure out a solution that allows continued >> development of this functionality. >> >> -Ken >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
