On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:35:50AM -0500, Russell Neches wrote: > Clearly, XFree86 is a bit more complicated. Nevertheless, shouldn't we > be talking about how to work with the XFree86 Project to resolve the > issues (whatever they are), instead of talking about forking the whole > project? Or is forking/re-implementing/replacing XFree86 the hot new > thing?
This sounds reasonable, but the whole issue is plagued by year long personal relationship problems, and power play over the actual control of the XFree86 project. I am only a minor contributor to XFree86, and have missed most of it, but then, it seems to me that all players in this have severly misbehaved in the past, and that these tensions and problems are resulting in the problems we are seing. The licence change is only the tip of the iceberg, and probably a not so clever move on the XFree86 part. This is probably this whole stuff is not really making sense to the non-initiated observers. Friendly, Sven Luther
