Bug#564474: mesa: glut files have non-DFSG-free license

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jan  9, 2010 at 20:00:13 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote:

> Julien Cristau schreef:
> >On Sat, Jan  9, 2010 at 19:25:31 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> >
> >>A similar issue was reported (and resolved) for glutg3-dev, see Debian bug report #131997.
> >>
> >It's not a similar issue, it's the exact same one.  So why do you open
> >this exactly?
> 
> Because the code in Mesa seems to be based on that of glut, but has
> been modified since it was included.
> 
I can't see any substantial modification in src/glut/glx since the
initial import.

> I've previously contacted the FSF Licensing Lab about this:
> 
> "Please be careful not to read the notice any further than it goes.  In
> particular: it only applies to what Mark wrote, and it only applies to
> whatever code of his existed in libglut when he sent his reply to
> Debian.  Nothing anybody else wrote, and nothing that wasn't in libglut
> at the time."
> 
> >Anyway, the next mesa upload won't include glut sources.
> 
> Great. Will pointblast.c and spriteblast.c also be gone?
> 
Probably not.

Cheers,
Julien