jogl

Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre.ledru at inria.fr
Wed Nov 28 14:08:37 UTC 2007


Le mercredi 28 novembre 2007 à 14:23 +0100, Robert Schuster a écrit :
> Hi,
> recently Fedora people have thrown out jogl because of licensing
> issue.
> Perhaps it makes sense to look whether this affects Debian too:
> 
> http://www.javagaming.org/forums/index.php?topic=10718.msg138381#msg138381
> 
> If so we should contact the JOGL people or Tom Marble to fix it. :)

Thanks for this information.

However, it seems that it is not a standard "SGI Free Software License
B" but a one modified by Sun.

I just check the source impacted and you can see in the header (file
jogl/src/classes/com/sun/opengl/impl/tessellator/Normal.java) 

"
The JOGL source tree contains code ported from the OpenGL sample
implementation by Silicon Graphics, Inc. This code is licensed under
the SGI Free Software License B (Sun is redistributing the modified code
under a slightly modified, alternative license, which is described two
paragraphs below after "NOTE:"):
"

The NOTE: is 
"
   NOTE:  The Original Code (as defined below) has been licensed to Sun 
   Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun") under the SGI Free Software License B 
   (Version 1.1), shown above ("SGI License").   Pursuant to Section  
   3.2(3) of the SGI License, Sun is distributing the Covered Code to 
   you under an alternative license ("Alternative License").  This 
   Alternative License includes all of the provisions of the SGI License
except that Section 2.2 and 11 are omitted.  Any differences between the
Alternative License and the SGI License are offered solely by Sun and
not by SGI."

What are the Section 2.2 and 11 ?
Here is the licence : 
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/
The section 2.2 is about "Recipient License Grant" and the 11 is about
Indemnity.

Reading these two sections, I don't think Sun's modifications fix
problems highlighted by the FSF  but since I am not a lawyer ... 

I am going to contact to the JoGL developer.

Sylvestre




Sylvestre Ledru schrieb:
>> Hello,
> > 
> > I am one of the main developer of Scilab. In the next version of our
> > software, we are going to use JoGL. As it is not packaged under
Debian,
> > I am offering my help to package jogl in Debian.
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337828
> > 
> > I started for Jerome's work and I have been able to build the
package to
> > the latest version of Jogl (1.1.1-rc7).

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