[Trisquel-devel] [GNU-linux-libre] Freedom issues in lame, cdrkit, SDL, foomatic-filters, freepascal, unzip

Alexandre Oliva lxoliva at fsfla.org
Tue Sep 6 23:21:58 CEST 2011


On Sep  5, 2011, Henry Jensen <hjensen at gmx.de> wrote:

> fpcbuild-2.4.2/fpcsrc/packages/opengl/src/gl.pp
> fpcbuild-2.4.2/fpcsrc/packages/opengl/src/glu.pp

>     Quote
>     ** Copyright 1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
>     ** All Rights Reserved.
>     **
>     ** This is UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE of Silicon Graphics, Inc.;
>     ** the contents of this file may not be disclosed to third parties, copied or
>     ** duplicated in any form, in whole or in part, without the prior written
>     ** permission of Silicon Graphics, Inc.

I suggest checking whether these are not part of the *GL code that SGI
relicensed under a Free Software license a while ago.  If they are,
taking them under the new license is probably an easy fix.

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