History
freeglut was originally written by Pawel W. Olszta with contributions from Andreas Umbach and Steve Baker. Since Pawel ceased working in 3D graphics, he passed the baton to Steve Baker. Steve is now the official owner/maintainer of freeglut, although John Fay does most of the day-to-day work.
Pawel started freeglut development on December 1st, 1999. The project is now virtually a 100% replacement for the original GLUT with only a few departures (such as the abandonment of SGI-specific features such as the Dials&Buttons box and Dynamic Video Resolution) and a shrinking set of bugs.
freeglut contains a few enhancements over the original GLUT - but as a matter of policy, no further significant features will be added.
Some members of the freeglut team who wanted to add features forked the code to create OpenGLUT. Development of OpenGLUT ceased in May 2005; the last release was OpenGLUT-0.6.3 in March 2005.
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