Re: Mesa 6.3.1 merge

Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Brian Paul wrote:
> 
>>>>> src/glu/mesa/
>>>>> src/glut/
>>>>> src/glw/boilerplate.c
>>>>> src/mesa/drivers/allegro/
>>>>> src/mesa/drivers/directfb/
>>>>> src/mesa/drivers/ggi/
>>>>> src/mesa/drivers/svga/
>>>>> src/mesa/drivers/windows/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's a significant change in policy, since GLU and glut have been 
>>>> part of the install set for X since Mesa was first imported into 
>>>> XFree86 (iirc).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> AFAIK the GLU shipped with X was always from the SGI SI,
>>
>>
>>
>> Right.  I want to omit the old Mesa GLU 1.1 code, not the GLU 1.3 code 
>> from SGI.
>>
>>
>>> and I don't remember GLUT ever shipping with X.
>>
>>
>>
>> Right.  The distros have been avoiding using Mark Kilgard's GLUT 
>> because of its lack of a real license.  And the dos, ggi and mini 
>> subdirectories in there have GPL code.
> 
> 
> Due to legal concerns about Mark Kilgard's GLUT, legal counsel had us
> remove GLUT from our OS, which we later replaced with freeglut once
> freeglut became stable and useable.
> 
> Does the Mesa source still contain Mark's GLUT source?  If so, is there
> any chance of having it removed from the Mesa tarball and put in a
> separate tarball to avoid having code with legal issues in the Mesa
> source?
> 
> We'll be using the stock Mesa official tarballs in Fedora Core 5
> and later OS releases that ship X11R7, but we'll have to remove
> the GLUT source manually and ship modified Mesa tarballs in our
> upcoming OS releases if GLUT is present.  I'd like to avoid that
> if it's at all possible.
> 
> Perhaps Mesa could replace GLUT with freeglut, or even just a
> pointer to freeglut?

Freeglut is pretty broken.  I'd prefer not to lose glut from the 
standard mesa builds.

Keith