# There was some DFSG license debate about MESA in the past, on # Debian bug 131997. This was primarily as the original license body # did not provide the right to modify. Marc Kilgard, the upstream # author, ultimately clarified this on the Debian bug: # http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=131997#71 # Reproduced here below for reference. This program is freely distributable without licensing fees and is provided without guarantee or warrantee expressed or implied. This program is -not- in the public domain. Regarding the right to modify and distribute this software: | From: Mark Kilgard <mjk@nvidia.com> | To: "'Anthony Towns'" <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> | Cc: David Starner <starner@okstate.edu>, 131997@bugs.debian.org | Subject: RE: GLUT license | Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:56:30 -0800 | | Anthony, | | > Would it be possible for you to just make it absolutely clear that | > everyone's allowed to use, copy, and modify (and distribute their | > modifications) of libglut? | > | > Just quoting the above and replying "Yes, that's fine" or similar | > would be okay. | | Yes, that's fine. | | Were you the losers that sent me email about a a "bug" filed against | GLUT's licensee? I tell that story occasionally as an example of | what idiots there are in the world. | | Please don't reply and waste my time with your GNU zealotry/stupidity. | | - Mark