On 11/08/2012 11:10, pulkomandy wrote:
This works. However, there are two problems :
* The Glut library is not maintained anymore. This means we have to
keep our own fork and develop it ourselves.
* More importantly, we are not allowed to make any changes to Glut. The
licence allows distributing the lib, but not modifying it. This is not
compatible with the MIT licence that Haiku should be using.
The solution seems to be switching to FreeGLUT. This is a rewrite of
GLUT licenced under the MIT Licence, so it should be fine for us to use
it. However, it needs to be ported to Haiku. We also have to watch out
for possible changes in ABI.
This is a rather important licencing issue, as some changes were already
made to our GLUT version:
http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/log/src/libs/mesa/glut
This violates the GLUT licence. So we should find a solution as soon as
possible.
I'd say it could be argued changing it so it works for us falls into
some kind of fair use, and that forbidding to modify sources even for
this is an abusive clause, but I don't think we want to try this in
court.
Anyway, it's better to use a Free Software version if we can.
