retitle 368560 mesa: material under SGI Free Software License B is not DFSG-free thanks
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:55:47PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Steve Langasek > > bug #368560 concerning what licenses the code is under. In the > > sources of mesa 6.5 CVS (the version in experimental), I'm unable to > > find any references to the "GLX Public License" at all. Does that > > mean we should consider this particular license issue resolved, or > > do either of you have evidence that the license statements included > > upstream are incorrect? > No, I don't have such evidence. In fact I never knew in detail which > code was covered by that licence - just noticed it in the copyright > file and saw that it looked fishy. That was before the X.org > transition, and it is entirely plausible that the offending files have > been dropped/replaced/relicenced upstream or otherwise disappeared > along the way. > I have just grepped throught the mesa 6.4.2-1 sources for key phrases > in the problematic license clauses, without finding any of them. So it > seems that this bug does not apply to the current mesa packages, at > least. Ok, thanks for the confirmation. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
