This one time, at band camp, David Starner wrote: >On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:41:21PM -0600, David Starner wrote: >> reopen 131997 >> thanks >> >> > * GLUT headers and examples are actually DFSG free, >> > see debian/copyright (Closes: #131997) >> >> and debian/copyright says >> >> NOTICE: The OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) distribution contains source >> code published in a book titled "Programming OpenGL for the X Window >> System" (ISBN: 0-201-48359-9) published by Addison-Wesley. The >> programs and associated files contained in the distribution were >> developed by Mark J. Kilgard and are Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 by Mark >> J. Kilgard (unless otherwise noted). The programs are not in the >> public domain, but they are freely distributable without licensing >> fees. These programs are provided without guarantee or warrantee >> expressed or implied.
debian/copyright also includes upstreams response to my queries, which you conveniently failed to include. In that mail, Mark Kilgard makes it quite clear that the user certainly has a right to modify his code. >> That's not a DFSG-free license - there's no right to modify given. I've >> been told that the author basically means the X11 license, but if so, >> then he needs to state that, and that needs to be included in the >> package. ITYM "no right to modify explicitly given". And if you bothered to read all of debian/copyright, you would have realised that I had included what the author means in the package. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg And, Lord, we're especially thankful for nuclear power, the cleanest, safest energy source there is, except for solar, which is just a pipe dream. -- Homer Simpson, Bart Vs. Thanksgiving
