W COPYRIGHT(S)

Torsten Scherer and Kay Roemer agreed on changing the W copyright to a
better known/defined ones, in this case GPL and LGPL, the GNU General
Public Licences for applications and libraries.  Official W version 1,
revision 4 is the first version with these copyrights.  The licence text
for Wlib and W2Xlib libraries is in the file 'LGPL' and the licence
text for other files is in the file 'GPL', unless otherwise noted in
the actual source file.

Most of the W code will now be under these licences, but there are some
files where other copyrights apply.  Most notably exceptions are W fonts
which are converted from fonts coming with the XFree86 X11 server.  If
you intend to use W package more seriously, please check the respective
licences and copyrights for those.  W 'cour' family is converted from
Courier, 'fixed' from Fixed, 'lucidat' from Lucidatypewriter and 'book'
from New Century Schoolbook X bitmap font family.  'vga16.wfnt' font
is converted from 'vga.bdf' font coming with GPL Linux Dosemu source.

Other files having copyrights differing from GPL/LGPL are:
	fonts/bdf2wfnt.c (free)
	server/xconout2/mint/* (MiNT Copyright)
	server/graph/generic/generic_bezier.c (free?)
	w2xlib/bezier.c (free?)
	lib/isqrt.c (free?)
	wlua/wlua5.c (MIT)
	wlua/wlua4.c (zlib)

This list may be incomplete, see the actual source files for more
accurate information.


COPYRIGHT REASONING

There were already some files covered by the (L)GPL licences, so the
choice was quite obvious.  These files were:
	apps/basename.c
	apps/wsaver/bounce.c
	apps/wsaver/stars.c
	demos/warp.c
	games/wdragon/*
	server/util/*


W AUTHORS

Torsten Scherer (TeSche), itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de

	The original W author and maintainer, wrote all of the W code
	upto W0R8, and most upto W1R3.  Beginning is always the hardest
	:-).  Resigned from W development during transition to current
	release 4.  Last seen on the 68k-linux kernel mailing list ;-).

Kay Rmer, roemer@diamant.vsb.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de

	Wrote whole TCP/IP networking for MiNT which gave TeSche
	inspiration to continue with W as long as he did.  Wrote W
	clipping and polygon graphics routines, rectangle/visibility
	code, most of nested window hierarchy handling code and of
	course the W toolkit, Wescape WWW-browser and Wvt.  Resigned
	from W development during transition to current release 4.

Eero Tamminen, oak@welho.com, http://koti.welho.com/kmattil4/

	Wrote BMONO graphics driver (based on PACKED driver), W pattern
	functions (code based on the solid ones), added new text styles
	and better text clipping, finished BITMAP format conversions,
	color functionality, W library documentation and most of other
	documentation, rewrote SVGAlib support to use common gfx drivers
	and linux framebuffer code to work also with x86-linux, added
	GGI support and more functions to Wlib, wrote W2Xlib, most
	of (smaller) W applications and several W toolkit widgets.


OTHER CONTRIBUTORS

	Simon Kagedal	 <Simon.Kagedal@sdf.luth.se>
	Jan Paul Schmidt <Jan.P.Schmidt@mni.fh-giessen.de>
	Torsten Will	 <itwill@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
	Frank Wille	 <frank@phoenix.owl.de>       (Amiga/NetBSD port)
	Jens Kilian
	Jonathan Oddie   <oddie@lorien.flatirons.org> (MacMiNT port/drivers)
	Benjamin C. W. Sittler


9th of September 2000,

	- Eero
