Hello,
Do you think public documentation sources from the Khronos group http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Getting_started/XML_Toolchain_and_Man_Pages need more vetting by legal? There is this "helpful" blurb about the licensing:
"There are a variety of licenses from SGI, 3Dlabs, Sams Publishing, and the Khronos Group applied to different parts of the man pages. We think they all boil down to "BSD style" licenses that should allow you to modify and redistribute the man pages. However, this is not an official legal opinion or committment from Khronos. You must make your own judgements based on reading the licenses involved."
We've shipped gl-manpages (an old(2006) prebuild version of these man pages) with mesa subpackages for a while (now a separate package in f18 and rawhide), but I'd like to move to building from the khronos source. This potentially would include the OpenGL 4.x, 3.x and GLSL man pages which I we've not distributed till now.
Regards Yanko
On 09/05/2012 12:00 PM, Yanko Kaneti wrote:
Hello,
Do you think public documentation sources from the Khronos group http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Getting_started/XML_Toolchain_and_Man_Pages need more vetting by legal? There is this "helpful" blurb about the licensing:
"There are a variety of licenses from SGI, 3Dlabs, Sams Publishing, and the Khronos Group applied to different parts of the man pages. We think they all boil down to "BSD style" licenses that should allow you to modify and redistribute the man pages. However, this is not an official legal opinion or committment from Khronos. You must make your own judgements based on reading the licenses involved."
We've shipped gl-manpages (an old(2006) prebuild version of these man pages) with mesa subpackages for a while (now a separate package in f18 and rawhide), but I'd like to move to building from the khronos source. This potentially would include the OpenGL 4.x, 3.x and GLSL man pages which I we've not distributed till now.
A quick audit shows these licenses:
(SGI): SGI Free B (which is now just MIT) (The Khronos Group): SGI Free B (which is now just MIT) (3Dlabs): Open Publication
So, this is all fine, use:
License: MIT and Open Publication
~tom
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