Xsnow

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Sample output of Xsnow 1.42 on a KDE/Linux system

Xsnow is a desktop toy that was originally created as a virtual greeting card for Macintosh systems back in 1984. In 1993, the concept was ported to the X Window System as Xsnow, and was included on a number of Linux distributions in the late 1990s.

1 Licensing
- 1.1 License
2 Variants
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Licensing

Even though Xsnow was distributed with earlier versions of Linux, its most recent versions are shareware Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X ports with added features. The Unix-based ports remain open-source in order to allow compiling to other platforms, but the software is not considered free software in the strictest sense.

[edit] License

Xsnow is available freely and you may give it to other people as is, but I retain all rights. Therefore it does not classify as 'Public Domain' software. It *is* allowed to package Xsnow for Unix/Linux distributions, CD-Roms etc, and to make the necessary changes to makefiles etc. to facilitate this.

[edit] Variants

At least one free variant with source code has been published for Windows by Revenger, Inc. This version is snow-only and does not use code from the Xsnow codebase.
DarwinPorts has a source code build for Mac OS X that's not the shareware version.