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Credits and licences

Who made MSL, the licences it's under, and where to read more.

Chapter 19 of 201 min read

The full story is in the About MSL window — choose MSL ▸ About MSL.

In the About window#

  • About — the melon, MSL's logo; the version; and the mascot, illustrated by neekocat_2025.
  • Licence — the full text, and why one repository has two licences.
  • Contributors — everyone who has landed a commit, read live from GitHub, each with their own colour.
  • Extras — what MSL is for, and the story of writing an X11 server from scratch.

Licences#

MSL is free software.

  • mslgd — the X11 server, its per-app window hosts and the guest-side tunnel, and anything derived from them — is under the GNU General Public License v3. Use it, change it, share it; if you share changes, share their source too. The app ships with mslgd built in, so the app as a whole is GPL v3.
  • Everything else — the app, the msl command, the background service, MSL Files, the guest daemons and the virtual-machine plumbing — is under the MIT licence, so anyone can use it for anything.

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