OpenGL is free free free software

Ian Romanick idr at freedesktop.org
Wed Sep 24 15:10:43 PDT 2008


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Brett Smith wrote:

| From a licensing perspective, we feel it would be ideal if someone
| could get in touch with the people who wrote changes to those files,
| and get their permission to relicense it under the new SGI Free
| License B or something compatible.  The FSF would be ready and eager
| to help with that sort of effort in any way within our power that you
| all would like; we spent nine months negotiating with SGI to fix the
| original license, and we want to see to it that all the remaining
| loose ends get tied up too.

I've made a ton of changes to server-side GLX code over the years.  I
officially give permission to relicense my changes under the new SGI
Free License B or something compatible.  FWIW, I don't think this is
strictly necessary.  *shrug*
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