Re: Bug#131997 acknowledged by developer (Bug#131997: fixed in glut 3.7-12)
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.
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