[gpm]Using only the driver part of GPM

[Alessandro Rubini]

Hi.

I think what you should do is using mice.c alone, withouth the rest of
gpm. You program can open the mouse port (whatever it is) directly,
without passing through gpm.

[disclaimer, I wrote stuff below before verifying you are
already using the GPL]

Note, though, that mice.c is GPL, so your whole executable must be GPL
(or not distributed at all).  If this is a problem, wrap mice.c
into a (GPL) main that prints events to stdout, your program, then,
can popen() that tool and get an fd to read data from.

If you choose this approach, I think the wrapper may be a useful addition
to the official gpm package, provided you also update the manual with
all relevant information, and the maintainer agrees with me about such
usefullness.

Best
/alessandro
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