On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:46:43PM -0800, Unix Fan wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > To satisfy my own curiosity, looking at
> > www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_X_window_managers which provides
> > links to 45 window managers for which there are wiki pages, I looked at
> > the licence for each and found that only xmonad, wmii, fluxbox, and
> > blackbox are licenced under BSD or MIT license.  
> > 
> > Since I didn't look at the software itself, I don't know if any require
> > GPL libraries.
> > 
> > Just thought I'd FYI.  I'm not making an argument either/any way.
> > 
> > Doug.
> 
> Fluxbox is MIT licenced, it's dependencies are Imlib2, which is BSD 
> licenced.. everything else is included in Xorg and is (AFAIK..) under a 
> similar licence.
> 
> -Nix Fan. (Fvwm, IMHO is ugly..)

Fluxbox is fugly, fvwm is awesome.

this discussion is very useful!

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