This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of the General Purpose
Mouse Interface utility. The general purpose mouse daemon tries to be
a useful mouse server for applications running on the Linux console.

This package was put together by, James Troup <[email protected]>.

Now maintained as a team by:

Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Peter Samuelson <[email protected]>

The upstream source was downloaded from:

<http://unix.schottelius.org/gpm/archives/>

The initial changes while packaging were minor :-

- adding support for the Debian package maintenance scheme, by adding
various debian/* files.
- gpm.c (processConn): type of socket length changed (size_t -> socklen_t).
- debuglog.c: #include <string.h> to quiet -Wall.
- doc/Makefile.in (maintainer-clean): clean without interaction and
clean all relevant files (i.e. gpm.info-{1,2}).
- doc/Makefile.in: add support for mouse-test.1.

The following changes were thought of and done mostly by François
Gouget <[email protected]>; though I didn't apply his patches as
they were for various reasons:

- gpn.c (cmdline): modified handling of -t command line argument, so it
can be used by anyone regardless of whether or not a copy of gpm is
already running.
- gpn.c (usage): update for new -t option "types".
- mice.c: improved descriptions of mouse types.
- mice.c (M_listMice): function used by -t help, reworked version of
old M_listTypes.
- mice.c (M_listTypes): function used by -t types; lists only
mnemonics.

Copyright Holders:

Copyright © 1993 Andrew Haylett <[email protected]>
Copyright © 1994-2000 Alessandro Rubini <[email protected]>
Copyright © 1998,1999 Ian Zimmerman <[email protected]>
Copyright © 2001-2008 Nico Schottelius <[email protected]>

Debian specific modifications (1.10-1 -> 1.10-6)
Copyright © 1996, 1997 Martin Schulze

Debian specific modifications (1.10-7 and onwards)
Copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999 James Troup

License:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with
your Debian GNU/Linux system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2, or with
the Debian GNU/Linux gpm source package as the file COPYING. If not,
write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,
Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA