[haiku-development] Re: Potential trademark issue -- OpenGL

  • From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:59:12 -0800

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Alexander von Gluck
<kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With all the tiptoeing above, maybe we should consider stripping all
> references to "OpenGL" in Haiku? While these changes may cause confusion to
> users... it would improve our legal safety.
>
> Thoughts?

If Mesa intentionally avoids it, then I think we should as well... I
have to assume Mesa has already contacted SGI and the requirements for
obtaining the license were difficult to comply with, otherwise they
likely would have done so. We should follow Mesa's lead.

- Urias

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