On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:29 AM Morgan Aldridge <morg...@makkintosshu.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:27 AM Morgan Aldridge > <morg...@makkintosshu.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 3:37 PM Morgan Aldridge > > <morg...@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. OK? Morgan
