From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Sep 9 9:33:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from radon.gryphonsoft.com (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EABA37B424 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 09:33:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by radon.gryphonsoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0EA7D194F; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 11:30:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 11:30:53 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Karl Dietz Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: License issues for putting anaglyph 3D OpenGL sample on FreeBSD cdrom Message-ID: <20000909113052.N632@radon.gryphonsoft.com> Reply-To: Will Andrews References: <39B8DC99.3DE977B@triplan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39B8DC99.3DE977B@triplan.com>; from Karl.Dietz@triplan.com on Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:33:29PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:33:29PM +0200, Karl Dietz wrote: > I made a port of anaglyph, a sample app that render 3D object in > OpenGL for viewing with "colored glasses" (these red/blue glasses) > The author grants permission to put source and binaries on a free > media. As I asked him about putting this on a distribution CD that > is sold he said: > > "No, source or binaries may not be distributed on a commercial media > without some "arrangement", generally a financial one to my benefit." > > I offered him a FreeBSD CD set, as an example of an arrangement. I think that the general consensus has been that it is usually difficult to handle this sort of thing, and that it is usually the loss of the programmers who refuse to allow redistribution like this, more so than the FreeBSD Project's. -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB++++$ P+ L- E--- W+ N-- !o ?K w--- O- M+ V- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X+ R+ tv+ b++ DI+++ D+ G++ e>++++ h! r- y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message