Mesa 6.3.1 merge
Brian Paul
brian.paul at tungstengraphics.com
Wed Aug 24 14:22:48 PDT 2005
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:57 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
>
>>On Tuesday 23 August 2005 10:49, Brian Paul wrote:
>>
>>>Whenever the 6.3.2 code is brought in, the following directories and
>>>files should be removed as they contain GPL code:
>>>
>>>src/glu/mesa/
>>>src/glut/
>>>src/glw/boilerplate.c
>>>src/mesa/drivers/allegro/
>>>src/mesa/drivers/directfb/
>>>src/mesa/drivers/ggi/
>>>src/mesa/drivers/svga/
>>>src/mesa/drivers/windows/
>>
>>That's a significant change in policy, since GLU and glut have been part of
>>the install set for X since Mesa was first imported into XFree86 (iirc).
>
>
> AFAIK the GLU shipped with X was always from the SGI SI,
Right. I want to omit the old Mesa GLU 1.1 code, not the GLU 1.3 code
from SGI.
> and I don't remember GLUT ever shipping with X.
Right. The distros have been avoiding using Mark Kilgard's GLUT
because of its lack of a real license. And the dos, ggi and mini
subdirectories in there have GPL code.
-Brian
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