From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, "Anselm R. Garbe" References: <20051120043521.69DA81B197D@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> <20051120123039.GB20958@wmii.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <20051120123039.GB20958@wmii.de> Subject: Re: [9fans] wmii? 9p2000 compliant window manager. Message-Id: <20051121021824.1862E2F6AF@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:18:24 -0600 Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: aecfb3ae-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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" 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, | -- | Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361