[Fedora-legal-list] Khronos Group OpenGL man documentation

[Tom Callaway]

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

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