Debianised by Steve Haslam, <araqnid@debian.org>, then maintained by
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/>

The debian packages are maintained through Subversion on:

    <svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-device3dfx/>

Upstream Authors:

    Daryll Straus
    Jon Taylor
    Jens Axboe
    Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>
    Joseph Kain <joseph@3dfx.com>
    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'.

All additions for Debian are also licensed under the GPL.

--------------- Clarification ----------------------------------------
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
--------------- Clarification ----------------------------------------