SGI relicenses OpenGL

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Fri, 09/19/2008 - 10:24

After nine months, an open secret can finally be acknowledged: The OpenGL code that is responsible for 3-D acceleration on GNU/Linux, which was released by SGI in 1999, has been running on licenses that were accepted by neither the Free Software Foundation (FSF) nor the Open Source Initiative.

Today, however, the FSF has announced that the licenses


 

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