From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 22 8:19:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE1237B479 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:19:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from unixs1.cis.pitt.edu (pfg1@[136.142.185.31]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with SMTP id <01JWU7LNJEF0000CYA@mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu> for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:19:08 EST Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:19:06 -0500 (EST) From: Pedro F Giffuni Subject: Re: KGI port In-reply-to: <20001122122703.D15916@wiliam.alcove-int> X-Sender: pfg1@unixs1.cis.pitt.edu To: Nicolas Souchu Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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