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proprietary libCg #94

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Today, od3 ships libCg binaries from NVIDIA in its source tree.
This Cg is not free software, and as such, is difficult to redistribute in
downstream linux distributions, if not impossible.

That will be even more critical when o3d is integrated directly into
Chromium. Downstream may have to drop support for 3D completely because of
this issue.

It would be better to use another approach, like direct GLSL calls, or some
indirect calls through another layer that could also do HLSL (for DirectX)
if needed.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by f...@sofaraway.org on 15 Jul 2009 at 10:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The Cg runtime is freely redistibutable. Are you concerned that it's not open 
source?  
We're working on trying to resolve the open-source issue.

Original comment by vange...@google.com on 16 Sep 2009 at 5:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Re #1: yes, more or less.

freely redistributable < open source < free software

See also "Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software" 
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

Original comment by evan@chromium.org on 16 Sep 2009 at 5:46