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⟩ How does a university or research institutionacquire access to OpenGL source code?

There is a university/research institution licensing program. A

university license entitles the institution to generate binaries and

copy them anywhere, so long as nothing leaves the institution. The

OpenGL source and derived binaries can only be used for non-commercial

purposes on-campus.

A university license costs $500 US. This license provides source

code for a sample implementation of OpenGL. This source code is

best designed for porting onto a system which supports the X

Window System. You can drop this into the X Consortium's X11

server source tree and build a server with the OpenGL extension.

To do this properly, you should have the MIT source for an X

Server and some experience modifying it.

Note that this gets you a software renderer only. If your

machine includes a graphics accelerator, the sample

implementation is not designed to take any advantage of it.

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