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graphics/glut license (WAS: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports)



Peter Valchev said:
> 	graphics/glut  : Makefile

> Log message:
> mark bad/incomplete/missing licenses as such.
> most work by nikolay, comments from naddy

In light of this I contacted the author of GLUT.  This is the only reply I
got:

> GLUT has a quite liberal (and brief) license.  It bears no "GNU
> philosophical burden".  If you can make money off GLUT, more power to you.
>
> Of course you can modify GLUT.  If you modify it in a way that would cause
> an incompatibility, I'd ask that you name the resulting shared library or
> DLL something different to avoid confusion for end-users.

When I pointed out that there was no explicit allowance to modify (and
showed him the OpenBSD template license) I got no reply.  Thanks to
pvalchev, nikolay, and naddy for finding this.  I guess this port will
just have to stay marked with "incomplete license" for now.  Thanks again.

-dan