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RE: [Xouvert-general] Recent Popular questions turned into FAQ
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David Ross |
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RE: [Xouvert-general] Recent Popular questions turned into FAQ |
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Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:16:53 -0700 |
Perhaps we need a FAQ? I would be happy to maintain it. If my
questions/answers/definitions are incomplete/wrong/etc feel free to
change.
We could start off with:
1.) Q) Will Xouvert remove/modularize network transparency? I
think we should do this to make X faster, more robust, or just plain
better.
A) We *cannot* remove network transparency. Period. There is
absolutely no
question about it whatsoever. X11 *is* a _network_ protocol. I think the
reason everyone thinks its slow, is because everyone thinks that X11 on
a local machine goes thru TCP/IP. It doesn't. It uses UNIX sockets
which are very fast.
2.) Q) Why does Xouvert use the XFree License? I think the
GPL/BSD/<my favourite license> is way better.
A) We are using the XFree License so that we maintain
license compatibility with Xfree86(tm) and so that we can contribute our
developments/code/improvements back to the XFree86 project. We do not
want to fork the Xouvert and XFree86 projects.
3.) Q) I keep hearing this talk of forking and branching,
what's the diff?
A) If we were to fork Xouvert from XFree86, then we would
be creating a whole other X Window system. We don't want to do that.
That would be bad because XFree86 is a proven accepted standard on many
platforms. It is it already stable, but lacks some features that
I/we/you/he/she/someone wants. That is why we are branching it--to pick
up the pace, and have a more public development process those developers
who want to work on X and for those who need to be on the bleeding edge.
A branch simply means that we want to have our work integrated back into
the larger whole and that we want to maintain compatibility with
XFree86.
-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf
Of Jonathan Walther
Sent: 2003 August 18 9:59 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Xouvert-general] License question
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:35:58AM +0200, Massimo Santoro wrote:
>The question was: "why not make it GPL instead of X11/MIT?"
>
>The answer was: "because we could not recontribute to XFree86"
>
>Then: "GPL would not cause anything <bad> about this, let's not forget
>it is
>an independent fork, maybe GPL would make it better".
That is false. Xouvert is an independant developement branch. It is
not a fork. Everything we do, is intended to be incorporated in the
"stable" XFree86 project eventually.
As a branch, and not a fork, it is important to keep the licenses
compatible and consistent, and not to alienate our co-developers at the
XFree86 project.
Jonathan
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- [Xouvert-general] License question, Massimo Santoro, 2003/08/18
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, William Lahti, 2003/08/18
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, Massimo Santoro, 2003/08/18
- RE: [Xouvert-general] License question, David Ross, 2003/08/18
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, Massimo Santoro, 2003/08/18
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, Jonathan Walther, 2003/08/19
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, Massimo Santoro, 2003/08/19
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, Massimo Santoro, 2003/08/19
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, Jonathan Walther, 2003/08/19
- RE: [Xouvert-general] Recent Popular questions turned into FAQ,
David Ross <=
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Recent Popular questions turned into FAQ, Jonathan Walther, 2003/08/19
- RE: [Xouvert-general] Recent Popular questions turned into FAQ, Per Cederberg, 2003/08/19
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Recent Popular questions turned into FAQ, Craig Ringer, 2003/08/19
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Recent Popular questions turned into FAQ, Jonathan Walther, 2003/08/19
- [xougen] Re: [Xouvert-general] Recent Popular questions turned into FAQ, Alan Cox, 2003/08/22
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Recent Popular questions turned into FAQ, William Lahti, 2003/08/20
- [Xouvert-general] The FAQ, David Ross, 2003/08/21
- [xougen] The Offical FAQ Locatoin, David Ross, 2003/08/22