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Re: [gNewSense-users] RMS about GLX
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Matthew Flaschen |
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Re: [gNewSense-users] RMS about GLX |
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Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:13:46 -0500 |
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Jorge Benavides Escobillana wrote:
> A year ago we discovered non-free code in OpenGL, but some
> months ago we convinced the developer to liberate it.
It is my understanding that SGI has liberated the code under the SGI
Free Software License B (including third-party code, since SGI had
unlimited authority to revise the license). However, the GLX Public
License is still non-free (https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+bug/6765).
> Does it mean that gNewSense can now restore the removed GLX code?
Not the parts under the GLX Public License. And I don't think (but I'm
not sure on this) it will work without those components.
Matt Flaschen