graphics/glut license (WAS: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports)

Peter Valchev said:
> graphics/glut : Makefile

> Log message:
> mark bad/incomplete/missing licenses as such.
> most work by nikolay, comments from naddy

In light of this I contacted the author of GLUT. This is the only reply I got:

> GLUT has a quite liberal (and brief) license. It bears no "GNU
> philosophical burden". If you can make money off GLUT, more power to you.
>
> Of course you can modify GLUT. If you modify it in a way that would cause
> an incompatibility, I'd ask that you name the resulting shared library or
> DLL something different to avoid confusion for end-users.

When I pointed out that there was no explicit allowance to modify (and showed him the OpenBSD template license) I got no reply. Thanks to pvalchev, nikolay, and naddy for finding this. I guess this port will just have to stay marked with "incomplete license" for now. Thanks again.

-dan Received on Mon Sep 29 01:10:52 2003