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Bug 74667 - media-libs/glut lists incorrect license
Summary: media-libs/glut lists incorrect license
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
URL: http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive...
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Reported: 2004-12-16 12:15 UTC by Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED)
Modified: 2005-09-07 09:18 UTC (History)
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Description Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-12-16 12:15:07 UTC
The license is currently listed as X11 or GPL-2.
From what I read on the net, the license is liberal but vague.
The only thing that is certain is that copyright belongs 
to Mark Kilgard.

I noticed that you have added these licenses in 
/media-libs/glut/glut-3.7-r2.ebuild version 1.4.
Are you sure of these?
Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-12-16 12:39:04 UTC
I'm inactive
Comment 2 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-06 00:19:08 UTC
i think the confusion stems from the fact that this ebuild actually installs Mesa3D-5.0, which is covered by a number of licences, including GPL, SGI, and MESA[1].  the GLUT library is copyright Mark Kilgard is not free software[2].  the COPYING file that ends up getting installed into /usr/share/doc/glut-3.7 is the license for Mesa and shouldn't be there.

the actual license can be viewed here:
http://bob.usuhs.mil/bid510/mol/glut-3.7.6/NOTICE


[1] http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/license.html
[2] http://www.mathies.com/glfaq/GLToolkitFAQ.html#I
Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-07 09:18:40 UTC
Fixed the LICENSE variable. We're moving toward freeglut so I'm not going to
spend any more time on this.