Mesa license issue?

[Anthony Green]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> NM, it looks like SGI signed off on that change upstream when they moved
> to hosting those files at Khronos.

Do you have a reference or link explaining this?  I'm working with the 
JOGL upstream developers on their use of SGI FreeB licensed code and 
this was their reaction to me removing JOGL from Fedora (for now)...

> This seems like a harsh overreaction. Sun's legal team reviewed our 
 > use of the code covered under the SGI FreeB license and (with our
 > prodding) approved it despite potential legal exposure to Sun.
> 
> I don't think SGI's OpenGL sample implementation has been relicensed. 
 > I just downloaded the Mesa 7 sources and there is no mention of the
 > Khronos group anywhere. The portions of code we are using (the
 > GLU tessellator and mipmap code) have as far as I know been
> written basically once in the industry and we're not going to pull 
 > out their inclusion in JOGL. Both Mesa and XFree86 seem to be
 > comfortable including code covered by the SGI FreeB license.
> 
> If you have a more concrete pointer regarding a relicensing of this 
 > code I'll look into it.

Thanks,

AG
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: green.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 163 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/attachments/20071107/85889896/attachment.vcf>