09-19-2008 07:30 AM
After nine months, an open secret can finally be acknowledged: The
OpenGL code that is responsible for 3-D acceleration on GNU/Linux, which was released by SGI in 1999, has been running on licenses that were accepted by neither the Free Software Foundation (FSF) nor the Open Source Initiative. Today, however, the FSF has announced that the licenses in question, the
SGI Free License B and the
GLX Public License, have been rewritten after months of negotiation between the FSF and SGI. The problem is now
resolved, and the result is a code contribution that the FSF ranks as one of the greatest given to the community by a proprietary company.
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