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J. Ali Harlow <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: other
Other License: Joint GNU LGPL and NetHack General Public License

nhproxy must be licensed under the NetHack General Public License so that
it is useable by NetHack and its variants. By also releasing it under the
LGPL we allow for the possibility of future windowing interfaces to be
written under other licenses (including GPL). Since I wrote all the code
in nhproxy, there is no problem to relicense it in this manner.
Package: NetHack Proxy
System name: nhproxy
Type: non-GNU

Description:
nhproxy is a library to provide proxy support for windowing interfaces of
NetHack and its variants. Without nhproxy, NetHack et. al. have a
reasonably complete abstraction API for windowing interfaces which has
been used for a number of years to provide windowing interfaces on a
variety of platforms (including Gnome and Gtk+). nhproxy is to NetHack et.
al. just another of these interfaces. Windowing interfaces which are
written to use nhproxy can be built as self-contained executables which
connect to NetHack et. al. either by forking and executing a program on
the local computer or via TCP/IP to a server running a version of NetHack
et. al. configured with nhproxy.

Up to this point, nhproxy has been developed as part of the Slash'EM
project. (a NetHack variant). It has now reached the stage that it would
be good to unbundle it. This would allow easier integration into other
NetHack variants and windowing interfaces which are not part of Slash'EM.
It will also allow for the possibility to write windowing interfaces which
are covered by a license compatible with LGPL (the current situation is
that nhproxy is covered by the NetHack General Public License which is
required when used with NetHack et. al. but limiting when used with
windowing interfaces).

You can browse the current version in Slash'EM CVS starting at:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/slashem/slashem/win/proxy/

(there are also some include files in slashem/include).

I am currently in the process of unbundling nhproxy and porting to
autoconf at which point I plan to release a snapshot. I hope to complete
this before Christmas, but would prefer not to wait for this before having
the savannah project registration completed if possible. 


Other Software Required:
nhproxy will not depend on anything. The initial (pre v1.0) snapshorts
will have an implicit dependency on Slash'EM. That is, nhproxy will build
without Slash'EM but in order to use it windowing interfaces need to know
the values of a number of pre-processor tokens that are defined in
Slash'EM headers. Removing this dependency will be one of the major tasks
in preparing the version 1.0 release.

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