Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:19:06 -0500 (EST) From: Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu> To: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@alcove.fr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KGI port Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.1001122111059.11628B-100000@unixs1.cis.pitt.edu> In-Reply-To: <20001122122703.D15916@wiliam.alcove-int>
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Good ! I recall the kernel related parts can be licensed under a plain (new) BSD license. I don't understand our fb enough but if you know your way through kld's and newbus, the result will be really neat. =09Pedro. On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > Hi hackers, >=20 > Hope you've ever heard about KGI... the kernel side of the GGI project. I= t consists > mostly in a basic framework for accessing graphic hardware from userland = and is designed > to support efficiently the GGI upper library. More info is avalable at > http://kgi.sourceforge.net >=20 > I'm willing to port it to FreeBSD. >=20 > First, any comments? advices? >=20 > Then, how could I efficiently reuse the existing stuff of FreeBSD (kbd, f= b)? >=20 > What are resistrictions on the license? Most of the code is governed by: >=20 > ** Copyright (C) 2000 xxxx > ** > ** This file is distributed under the terms and conditions of the=20 > ** MIT/X public license. Please see the file COPYRIGHT.MIT included > ** with this software for details of these terms and conditions. > ** Alternatively you may distribute this file under the terms and > ** conditions of the GNU General Public License. Please see the file= =20 > ** COPYRIGHT.GPL included with this software for details of these te= rms > ** and conditions. >=20 > Nicholas >=20 > --=20 > Nicolas Souchu > Alc=F4ve - Open Source Software Engineer - http://www.alcove.fr >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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