[Spice-devel] Standalone (non-virtual) windows server

[Dirk Eibach]

Hi Frediano,

thanks for your feedback.

On Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 1:03 PM Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...

> Hi Dirk,
>    I had to moderate this email and I had some doubts about accepting it or not.

Sorry about that. I had registered using the "gmail" domain, but my
client is using the "googlemail" one.

> I had to go and look at the GitHub link to understand what it was.
> More or less is a project to use SPICE on a bare metal machine,
> something like x11spice or winspice (see
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/win32/winspice).

That's right. We discussed this on list on october 13th. Sadly no one
mentioned winspice there.
But hey, doing the proof of concept myself was a lot of hacking funk.

> About licensing. it seems you want to post your code under GPL however
> your project is distributing some file copyrighted by Microsoft. Did
> you check if you can do it? Also, having multiple licensed files it
> would be good to put the licences header on each of your files. Sorry
> if this seems pedantic but better to get licenses right from the
> beginning.

I did not see that the Microsoft license is limiting distribution in
any way. I am no lawyer though.
This code should be removed anyway when the project leaves the proof
of concept state.

You are certainly right, every file should have its license header.

Regards,
Dirk

On Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 1:03 PM Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Il giorno sab 5 nov 2022 alle ore 08:09 Dirk Eibach
> <dirk.eibach at googlemail.com> ha scritto:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have started developing a standalone (non-virtual) windows server
> > application. It is based on the Desktop Duplication API, available
> > since Windows 8.
> >
> > A proof of concept is already working nicely. It still has some rough
> > edges though. If you like, join the fun at
> > https://github.com/ZeroMips/kuemmel.
> >
> > Comments welcome.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Dirk
>
> Hi Dirk,
>    I had to moderate this email and I had some doubts about accepting it or not.
> I had to go and look at the GitHub link to understand what it was.
> More or less is a project to use SPICE on a bare metal machine,
> something like x11spice or winspice (see
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/win32/winspice).
>
> About licensing. it seems you want to post your code under GPL however
> your project is distributing some file copyrighted by Microsoft. Did
> you check if you can do it? Also, having multiple licensed files it
> would be good to put the licences header on each of your files. Sorry
> if this seems pedantic but better to get licenses right from the
> beginning.
>
> Regards,
>   Frediano