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Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@debian.org>.
Currently maintained by Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>.
The upstream source was downloaded from:
<http://sf.net/projects/glide/>
Copyright Holders:
Copyright © 1998, 1999 Daryll Straus <daryll@harlot.rb.ca.us>
Copyright © 1998 Jon Taylor
Copyright © 1998 Jens Axboe
Copyright © 1998 Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>
Copyright © 1999, 2000 Joseph Kain <joseph@3dfx.com>
Copyright © 2000, 2001 Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@debian.org>
Copyright © 2003, 2004 Daniel Borca
Copyright © 2002-2008, 2011 Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
et al.
License:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in '/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
All additions for Debian are also licensed under the GPL.
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:17:00 -0700
From: Daryll Strauss <daryll@harlot.rb.ca.us>
To: araqnid <steve@arise.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: device3dfx licence, redistributable?
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us
In-Reply-To: <19990513105022.A27560@arise.demon.co.uk>;
from araqnid on Thu, May 13, 1999 at +10:50:22AM +0100
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 10:50:22AM +0100, araqnid wrote:
> I've got a voodoo2 card, and I've installed the device3dfx kernel
> driver I found on your page,
> <URL:http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS.html>. Since I'm a Debian
> developer, I'd like to include it in the Debian distribution, if
> that's possible.
>
> However, it's not clear to me whether the license for the glide
> drivers (which precludes redistribution afaict) also applies to
> device3dfx- and the 3dfx_driver.c file doesn't contain a clear
> copyright statement, which we would need for Debian. The RPM built
> from the device3dfx.src.rpm says "copyright: GPL", but I can't find
> anything to back this up...
The device is GPL'd. At least that's the intent. We should make that
more clear.
The X servers have the license stated, and will be XFree licensed as
they are being donated to XFree.
- |Daryll
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