[1275] in NetBSD-Development
Re: post-meeting old-chair auction; srz will be first.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jered Floyd)
Mon Mar 4 22:15:32 1996
To: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
Cc: dkk@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Mar 1996 22:10:45 EST."
<199603050310.WAA31220@foundation.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 22:15:00 EST
From: Jered Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
>
> > dkk: A professor wants an OpenGL source license; we wanted
> > this too. dkk wants to know what we want kept open in
> > a license agreement. Send dkk email if you have a
> > comment.
>
> I'm not sure if this is of as much interest to us now. There are a
> number of commercial OpenGL providers for Linux (and maybe NetBSD???)
[....]
If I remember correctly, the reason we dropped the issue the first time
was that the OpenGL license was some large amount (which isn't too bad),
plus about $65 per user, so to distribute an OpenGL server, SIPB would
have to pay $65 for each user.
Erik's right, there are a number of commercial OpenGL servers available
(some of which support hardware 3D acceleration) and the GLX support for
XFree (with Mesa and later hardware acceleration) is progressing quickly.
--Jered
