Re: MGL graphics library freed!
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 12:38:59PM +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
> Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > SciTech, the producers of MGL (a graphics library used to develop games
> > like Hexen II and Quake for Windows) have decided to make that library
> > "open source software", by changing its license to a derivative of the
> > MPL. (See their note at the GGI mail-list:
> > http://www.ggi-project.org/mailinglist/apr98/288.html )
> >
> > They are asking for comments on their license. If you are interested,
> > you can find it at:
> > http://www.scitechsoft.com/mgl-license.txt
> >
> > Anyone willing to debianize that stuff?
> I had a look at the license and there are restrictions on the distribution of
> modified versions. Seems to me, it'd go into non-free.
Sure? I haven't read it thoroughly, but section 2.1 allows distribution
of the original source code, with or without modifications. And section
3.6 allows distribution of executables. Am I missing something?
(Also, this license is not so different from the MPL, so I would be
surprised to see some "non-freeness" in it).
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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