RE: Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3

["Dr. Rich Murphey" <Rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: forum-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:forum-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Alan Coopersmith
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 1:56 AM
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> Subject: Re:  Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3
> 
> Dr. Rich Murphey wrote:
> > If your main concern is forking, you should be talking to those that are
> > forking.  Talk to X.org and let us know how it goes!
> 
> X.org is not really "forking" - it's simply that as has been done several
> times in the past since XFree86 originally forked from X.org, X.org was
> bringing the latest XFree86 changes back into the X.org tree.  This was
> being done on a new public CVS tree on freedesktop.org that was pulling
> over automatically from the XFree86 CVS.  The "fork" was simply that the
> cron jobs doing so were stopped when the license changed until X.org has
> a chance to decide whether or not code under the new license should be
> incorporated.  I'm sure the XFree86 Board expected everyone using their
> code to stop and take a look at the new license before pulling in code
> using it - if nothing else, to understand what the new requirements were
> and determine if they were meeting them or wanted to meet them.
> 
> Anyone who wants to know what X.org is doing can join the new open mailing
> lists at http://www.x.org/XOrg_Foundation.html or view the new public CVS
> at http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/xorg
> 
> --
> 	-Alan Coopersmith-          alan.coopersmith@xxxxxxx
> 	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. -- Operating Platforms Group
> 	 Solaris x86 & Interface Technology: X Window System
> 


Yes, the license change is surely a major concern.

But the license change did not determine whether a fork occurred.  The
license change didn't exist when the fork occurred.  It's quite impossible
to reason about causes of the fork in relation to influences that didn't
exist at the time.

X.org abandoned its code base and adopted the whole XFree86 code base, and
did so prior to the license change.  Perhaps there's a better description
than 'fork' but I can't think of it.

X.org didn't exist for many years after XFree86 started.  You probably mean
the X consortium, which was a completely separate organization that closed
many years ago.

Thanks for the pointer to the X.org mailing list and web site.  That's
exactly what's needed for those that want to know what's going on with the
fork.

Rich



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