[Mageia-dev] GLUT (part of mesa srpm) is not GPL... and is quite obsolete ! (bis)

Wed Jan 26 14:07:32 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Philippe DIDIER at 23/01/11 22:38 did gyre and gimble:
+> I send this message again because it did not appear in the mailing-list
+> after I sent it on january 18th....
+> As it concerns a basis rpm upon which others are built, I thought
+> there's some emergency
+> This seems to have at least convinced Mandriva team... and might improve
+> Mageia too, reaching some common standard with all the other distributions.
+> 
+> Here it is :
+> 
+> Hi everybody !
+> 
+> I don't know if it's the right place to post this, and I don't want to
+> fill this mail list with long mesages...
+> 
+> If someone needs to see what i'm talking about there's an old bug report
+> on Mandriva bugzilla that was recently resuscitated (I know Thierry
+> Vignaud had a glance on it...)
+> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47090
+> 
+> Perhaps it would be more sane and safe to start on a universal basis
+> with freeglut (that is used by every distribution), and build packages
+> with it (but that means a temporary problem of compatibility with
+> Mandriva...)
+> 
+> Hope this will help
+
+Yeah I've been following this in Mdv myself. I'll try and take a look
+when time frees itself from other tasks I'm involved in.
+
+I don't see any problems with the various improvements made in the
+packaging in mdv, so see no reason not to adopt them here.
+
+Col
+
+
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