GLUT library and CVS

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:30:11PM -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
> Basically I have things called freeglut vs glut. dorking = fixing include
> file and library names. I will go back and try changing the library order
> to see if I can clear the headache up.

I had a quick look at the freeglut page.  It claims in the Google
directory to be an "Open source implementation of GLUT with source and
binary backwards compatibility" but that appears to be untrue from
your experience...

If you can send me a diff showing your changes:

cvs diff -puN >	freeglut.patch

And a log showing how the build goes wrong:

make > freeglut.log 2>&1

(assuming bash or other bourne-like shell).

> > > and there may be an open source license issue.
> > 
> > What issue?  Debian regard glut as free software (libglut is in main).
> 
> Not sure, there was some remark in a freeglut file I found on one of these
> rpm index sites :)

Their website claims that GLUT's licence doesn't allow you to distribute
modified versions, but Debian managed to get clarification from GLUT's
author:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=131997

In particular Mark Kilgard <mjk@nvidia.com> writes:

    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.

Cheers,
    Olly