1 On 2012-11-15 4:04 pm, Mark Kilgard wrote:
4 > Ideally, if you gave permission to license the GLUT code MIT it would make my life easier... but that of course is your decision. :)
6 Please feel free to use the GLUT code any way you please for
7 commercial or non-commercial use. Put whatever license you want other
8 than a GPL. There's no warrantee for the code of course.
10 Good luck with your project.
14 > -----Original Message-----
15 > From: Alexander von Gluck IV [mailto:kallisti5@unixzen.com]
16 > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 1:45 PM
22 > I'm one of the developers of the Haiku project. (Open Source MIT
23 > licensed re-implementation of BeOS)
25 > At the moment, we have the unmodified GLUT source code in our tree to
26 > ensure binary compatibility with BeOS (GLUT was present in libGL.so on
27 > BeOS R5). However, our developers feel anxious distributing any
28 > modified sources or binaries of GLUT given the licensing terms present
29 > when the last public version was released.
31 > I would like to know if you would be willing to give Haiku permission
32 > to modify GLUT and distribute it to ensure the best GL compatibility.
33 > The license notated in the code was a little unclear and I wanted to
34 > make 100% sure we were following your wishes.
36 > Ideally, if you gave permission to license the GLUT code MIT it would
37 > make my life easier... but that of course is your decision. :)
39 > http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/libs/glut
41 > Thanks for your time.
42 > -- Alexander von Gluck IV