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Robert Millan <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: note that the kernel and kernel-related utilities are GPL 
licensed, but the Glibc sysdeps extensions are LGPLed for obvious reasons.

Package: Athena (aka Athena OS, or AtheOS)
System name: athena
Type: non-GNU

Description:
Athena (also known as Athena OS, or AtheOS [1]) is a UN*X-like kernel
developed by Kurt Skauen. The kernel has a monolithic dessign and although its 
written with BeOS API in mind it's capable of running most of the GNU system 
(including Glibc and GNU userland) on top of it.

[1] Since it is actualy a kernel i opt for avoiding the term "AtheOS" and call 
it using the long form "Athena".

The project was originaly hosted at http://www.atheos.cx/, but unfortunately, 
Kurt (the only project maintainer) completely stopped development on it some 
time ago. He didn't give CVS access to anyone
else so Athena's development is completely stalled now.

Forks of his project that take completely different directions have been 
started. For example, one of them ported Athena to run on top of the kernel 
Linux. I don't intend this project at Savannah as a fork but rather as the 
means to restore CVS access so that the Athena project doesn't get stalled. I'm 
confident that the Athena developers will prefer to participate by using 
Savannah's facilities rather than
letting their project die.

I intend to use this Savannah project for development of the kernel Athena, but 
also the kernel-related utilities (for example, Glibc extensions for Athena, or 
kernel-specific utils like "top", "mount", etc).

I don't have intention, though, for using Savannah's project for creating an 
Athena-based OS or distribution (i know it's not allowed). Whenever I want to 
do that i'll do it somewhere else, probably in Debian.

URLs:

project site:
  http://www.atheos.cx/
binaries of Athena-based (GNU) system:
  http://www.atheos.cx/download/list.php3?current+base
0.3.7 release sources:
  http://www.atheos.cx/download/list.php3?current+src
CVS repository:
  http://www.atheos.cx/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/


Other Software Required:
none, although it needs the GNU C library and GNU userland for being usable and 
self-hosting.


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