Re: NEW: x11/mlvwm

On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 11:59 AM Morgan Aldridge
<morgant@makkintosshu.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:29 AM Morgan Aldridge
> <morgant@makkintosshu.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:27 AM Morgan Aldridge
> > <morgant@makkintosshu.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 3:37 PM Morgan Aldridge
> > > <morgant@makkintosshu.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > MLVWM is a lightweight Macintosh-[L]ike Virtual Window Manager for X11:
> > > >
> > > > <http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~y-miyata/mlvwm.html>
> > > >
> > > > I have been using it on OpenBSD 6.4 thru 6.8-current and find it
> > > > stable on i386 & amd64. I'd love to have someone test on macppc (it
> > > > seems rather appropriate) and other platforms.
> > >
> > > Ping, plus updated tarball with a couple minor patches to remove
> > > compiler warnings.
> > >
> > > Testing and/or OK appreciated.
> > >
> > > > If you need additional configuration files for testing, please see my
> > > > mlvwmrc project: <https://github.com/morgant/mlvwmrc>.
> > > >
> > > > Despite its age, I do intend to maintain this port. I am currently
> > > > trying to reach the original author as it was released as freeware
> > > > with source included. It's okay to distribute, but I need to obtain
> > > > proper permission to do further new development beyond patches in the
> > > > port.
> > >
> > > I still haven't been able to contact the original author, but all
> > > source license files are either under the original MIT license from
> > > fvwm & twm or have the following clause:
> > >
> > > /* Copyright 1996 TakaC Hasegawa. No restrictions are placed on this code, */
> > > /* as long as the copyright notice is preserved */
> > >
> > > The only exception is mlvwm/wild.c which is stated to be released in
> > > the public domain. So, there should actually be no issue with me
> > > starting to modify the code to bring it up-to-date.
>
> I have been in contact with Takashi Hasegawa and he confirmed that
> there is no restriction as long as the copyright is included, so there
> are no issues with redistribution or modification. I still think
> "Freeware" is the most appropriate license comment, but I could change
> it to "Freeware/MIT", if preferable.

Updated to new mlvwm-0.9.2 release which includes new GitHub hosting,
upstreamed patches, and minor security improvements.

OK?

Morgan