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 == Fedora Project _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
