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

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jan  9, 2010 at 20:56:30 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote:

> Julien Cristau schreef:
> >>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 mostly looked at include/GL/glut.h, because that file was
> mentioned in the gNewSense bug report [1]. I had compared upstream
> glut-3.7 with Mesa's initial commit of glut.h and found that some
> function headers (mainly wgl*) and a bit of other stuff were added.
> 
I'm not sure what the problem is there anyway.  Kilgard says modifying
his code is ok, it seems fair to me to assume the modifications made in
the mesa tree were licensed similarly to the rest of the mesa tree
(assuming any of the modifications to glut are copyrightable, which
isn't all that likely from what I could tell).

> >>Great. Will pointblast.c and spriteblast.c also be gone?
> >>
> >Probably not.
> 
> Will those files be removed eventually?
> 
Can't see a particular reason to remove them…

I retitled the bug to reflect my understanding of what you're on about.

Cheers,
Julien