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RE: [Xouvert-general] Recent Popular questions turned into FAQ
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Per Cederberg |
Subject: |
RE: [Xouvert-general] Recent Popular questions turned into FAQ |
Date: |
19 Aug 2003 10:00:23 +0200 |
You could also include some stuff from the Xwin.org Wiki:
http://xwin.org:9673/xwin/DumbIdeas
Cheers,
/Per
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 08:16, David Ross wrote:
> 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
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, (continued)
- 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, 2003/08/19
- 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 <=
- 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