Linked by David Adams on Tue 23rd Sep 2008 00:12 UTC, submitted by zz
SGI and the Khronos Group published a new license for OpenGL. "The license, which now mirrors the free X11 license used by X.Org, further opens previously released SGI graphics software that has set the industry standard for visualization software and has proven essential to GNU/Linux and a host of applications." New new license is shorter than the the FreeB license in version 1.1, which wasn't an Open Source license.
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GNU GPL is the #1 license by far used in the free and open source world. However X related software have been using the more permissive MIT X11 license and OpenGL is now under this license (effectively) rather than GPL.
OpenGL is still the best solution for cross platform vendor neutral royalty free graphics and not just for games but for CAD/CAM applications as well.
Distributions have been aware of this issue and it would have been quite bad if SGI hadn't done what they did. So good job SGI!