Wayland (protocol)
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Wayland is a communication protocol that specifies the communication between a display server and its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol.[8] A display server using the Wayland protocol is called a Wayland compositor, because it additionally performs the task of a compositing window manager.
Original author(s) | Kristian Høgsberg |
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Developer(s) | freedesktop.org et al. |
Initial release | 30 September 2008; 15 years ago (2008-09-30)[1] |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Official: Linux Unofficial: NetBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD[4] |
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License | MIT License[5][6][7] |
Website | wayland |
Wayland is developed by a group of volunteers initially led by Kristian Høgsberg as a free and open-source community-driven project with the aim of replacing the X Window System with a secure[9][10][11][12] and simpler windowing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.[8][13] The project's source code is published under the terms of the MIT License, a permissive free software licence.[13][5]
As part of its efforts, the Wayland project also develops a reference implementation of a Wayland compositor called Weston.[8]