Non-free (?) GLX code under GLX Public License and SGI Free Software Licence B

Ian Romanick idr at us.ibm.com
Wed May 7 09:50:25 PDT 2008


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Dave Airlie wrote:

| a) SGI no longer cares about GLX that much. All of OpenGL has been
| handed to the Khronos group.
| so I'm not sure who can relicense the code, it might be possible for
| the Khronos group to release a relicensed version
| if they could be made care.

Not true at all.  SGI still owns and vehemently defends their ownership
and licensing rights of the OpenGL trademark, their code, and their
patents related to OpenGL.

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