1On 2012-11-15 4:04 pm, Mark Kilgard wrote:
2Alex,
3
4> Ideally, if you gave permission to license the GLUT code MIT it would make my life easier... but that of course is your decision. :)
5 
6Please feel free to use the GLUT code any way you please for
7commercial or non-commercial use.  Put whatever license you want other
8than a GPL.  There's no warrantee for the code of course.
9
10Good luck with your project.
11 
12- Mark
13 
14> -----Original Message-----
15> From: Alexander von Gluck IV [mailto:kallisti5@unixzen.com] 
16> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 1:45 PM
17> To: Mark Kilgard
18> Subject: BeOS GLUT
19> 
20> Good afternoon!
21> 
22> I'm one of the developers of the Haiku project. (Open Source MIT
23> licensed re-implementation of BeOS)
24> 
25> At the moment, we have the unmodified GLUT source code in our tree to
26> ensure binary compatibility with BeOS (GLUT was present in libGL.so on
27> BeOS R5). However, our developers feel anxious distributing any
28> modified sources or binaries of GLUT given the licensing terms present
29> when the last public version was released.
30> 
31> I would like to know if you would be willing to give Haiku permission
32> to modify GLUT and distribute it to ensure the best GL compatibility.
33> The license notated in the code was a little unclear and I wanted to
34> make 100% sure we were following your wishes.
35> 
36> Ideally, if you gave permission to license the GLUT code MIT it would
37> make my life easier... but that of course is your decision. :)
38> 
39> http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/libs/glut
40> 
41> Thanks for your time.
42>   -- Alexander von Gluck IV
43