Commenting on: Good on you SGI - OpenGL sample implementation and GLX now truly free
Posted by Tony DeYoung on September 19, 2008
In January 2008, it was discovered that licenses for the SGI OpenGL Sample Implementation and the GLX API / extensions that are at the heart of GNU/Linux 3D applications (GLX is the glue connecting OpenGL and the X Window System), were not actually free. The original SGI Free License B and the GLX Public License were permissive, but contained terms which which were a significant problem for the free software community. But SGI has come through and released a new version of the SGI Free Software License B, which now mirrors the free X11 license used by X.Org. Both…
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