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 . Now maintained as a team by: Guillem Jover Peter Samuelson The upstream source was downloaded from: 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 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 ; 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 Copyright © 1994-2000 Alessandro Rubini Copyright © 1998,1999 Ian Zimmerman Copyright © 2001-2008 Nico Schottelius 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