On 2012-11-15 4:04 pm, Mark Kilgard wrote:
Alex,

> Ideally, if you gave permission to license the GLUT code MIT it would make my life easier... but that of course is your decision. :)
 
Please feel free to use the GLUT code any way you please for
commercial or non-commercial use.  Put whatever license you want other
than a GPL.  There's no warrantee for the code of course.

Good luck with your project.
 
- Mark
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander von Gluck IV [mailto:kallisti5@unixzen.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 1:45 PM
> To: Mark Kilgard
> Subject: BeOS GLUT
> 
> Good afternoon!
> 
> I'm one of the developers of the Haiku project. (Open Source MIT
> licensed re-implementation of BeOS)
> 
> At the moment, we have the unmodified GLUT source code in our tree to
> ensure binary compatibility with BeOS (GLUT was present in libGL.so on
> BeOS R5). However, our developers feel anxious distributing any
> modified sources or binaries of GLUT given the licensing terms present
> when the last public version was released.
> 
> I would like to know if you would be willing to give Haiku permission
> to modify GLUT and distribute it to ensure the best GL compatibility.
> The license notated in the code was a little unclear and I wanted to
> make 100% sure we were following your wishes.
> 
> Ideally, if you gave permission to license the GLUT code MIT it would
> make my life easier... but that of course is your decision. :)
> 
> http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/libs/glut
> 
> Thanks for your time.
>   -- Alexander von Gluck IV