Re: Why code your own library?

[Tomas Andrle <tomaasz@iol.cz>]

On 24 Aug 1999, Ingo Ruhnke wrote:

>  
> > Quake (for example) links to Mesa - which is GPL and not LGPL.
> 
> No, at least not for version 3.0:
> 
> $ cat /usr/src/Mesa-3.0/LICENSE 
> 
>                   GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
>                        Version 2, June 1991
> 
>  Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>                     675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
> [...]
> 
> Looks like mesa is LGPL and not GPL.
> 

AFAIK the Mesa license was recently changed to (something like?) the
XFree-style license. This is, I guess, because of the GLX/DRI
integration in XFree 4, which I'm btw looking forward to.



Tomas