[ REQ 6188]: Stuart Levy: libGL.so for TU Dresden Mr. Ihle

[Mathias.Schulze at Germany.Sun.COM]

Dear Mr. Levy,

from our point of view it is OK that you give libGL.so as discribed in the 
included message to TU Dresden Mr. Ihle.

Thanks!

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> Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 19:56:43 -0500 (CDT)
> From: daemon at geom.umn.edu
> To: software@geom.umn.edu
> Cc: (ihle at iki111.inf.tu-dresden.de) (software-admin at geom.umn.edu)
> Reply-To: software@geom.umn.edu
> Subject: Re:  [Update REQ 6186]: libGL.so
> 
> From: Stuart Levy <slevy>
> Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 19:56:36 -0500
> Message-Id: <199705100056.TAA20940 at euler.geom.umn.edu>
> To: software@geom.umn.edu
> Subject: Re:  [ REQ 6186]: libGL.so
> 
> > Would it be legal and possible to produce a gvx.C3D binary with the
> > libGL statical linked in ?
> 
> I think it would be legal, but don't think it's possible; it appeared
> that Sun distributes only shared-library versions of the Creator3D libGL,
> at least on the systems I've had access to.  When I talked with the
> Sun people, they didn't mind the fact that we were distributing binaries
> linked with their libraries; I didn't ask whether they'd allow us to
> distribute the libraries as well.  I believe they said that their OpenGL
> libraries were being distributed for just the cost of media, so that a
> right-to-use license was free.
> 
> How about this?  Talk to your local Sun office.  If they can't give you the
> libraries themselves, can you ask them to write to us?  If they tell us that
> it's OK with them for you to have the libraries, we can put them up (briefly)
> for you to FTP.  
> 
>   Stuart Levy
> 
> 

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