Re: [9fans] wmii? 9p2000 compliant window manager.

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

i guess i'm guilty of not being clear too --- i was referring to the 
copyright on 9base, not wmii, which appeared to me to be mit/x
on the web site.

thanks for clarifying things.

- erik

"Anselm R. Garbe" <garbeam@gmail.com> writes

| 
| On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 10:35:21PM -0600, erik quanstrom wrote:
| > they only lists 19 applications.  they seem to be playing fast-and-loose
| > with the copyright though. they only list the x/mit license and credit
| > only themselves.
| 
| That is not true.
| 
| I'm the maintainer of wmii, which does not contain any portions
| of plan9 code. It is developed from scratch und completely
| licensed under the terms of MIT license.  Beginning with next
| version (wmii-3), which is planned for Xmas, all wmii-related
| servers (the core window manager, the shortcut manager, a
| keyboard driven menu and a pseudo-fs-router) will communicate
| via 9P. I implemented a unix library (libixp2) which is designed
| to allow very basic 9P client/server implementations, following
| the specs from the 9P man pages.
| 
| In contrast to wmii I also packaged 9base, which I already
| announced on this list long ago, based on plan9port, the mk unix
| port - all by Russ and my Makefiles for wmii (because 9base does
| not depend on mk).  We use 9base to configure wmii with rc
| scripts and included all useful userland tools we need for
| writing rc scripts.  In contrast to plan9port we also link
| statically against libc. The license details of 9base are
| included in the tarball, I'll add them also to the 9base wiki
| page to clarify those things, because it seems to confuse people
| as this discussion shows.
| 
| > their man pages seem to indicate that this is just a window manager.
| 
| That is true. The next version will be simply a dynamic window
| manager with some tools around and the 9P interface.
| 
| Regards,
| -- 
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