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