Re: The FreeRDP fork
Otavio Salvador <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.rdesktop.devel |
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On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 05:11, Peter Åstrand <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Well, Cendio has not agreed to this license change. If you think that all >>> of >>> our code has been replaced, why are Cendio developers still listed in the >>> AUTHORS file? Assuming that the GIT version is the correct one... >> >> The plan from the beginning was to remove Cendio code. Remember Peter >> it is because of you that FreeRDP exists in the first place. > > No, I don't remember that. In fact, I haven't seen any motivation why the > FreeRDP project was created in the first place. I've looked at > http://www.freerdp.com but I don't see any background information there > either. IMHO, if you were unhappy about any aspect of the rdesktop project, > I think it would have been much better to discuss this *before* creating a > fork. I also fail to understand why it was an explicit goal to "remove > Cendio code". Hello Peter, I tryed to contact the list and you directly some times with patches for merging into rdesktop and got no replies. I ended up announcing here a tarball with many fixes we have been using at O.S. Systems at time (http://arquivos.ossystems.com.br/~otavio/rdesktop-1.6.0.oss1.tar.gz) that is still available if you want to check. After some time trying contact I gave up and stop contacting you and the mailing list. After some time people contacted me and told me about FreeRDP so I joined the project and started contributing to it. Personally I'd say it would be awesome to get you guys helping FreeRDP and get your working improvements on it but I fear most of us will not give up on FreeRDP since it is much easier to contribute to it and it has much nicer architecture. About the license, I personally prefer LGPL then Apache but it is not the end of world for me. So it is acceptable on the end. As you have said, many vendors doesn't give changes back so it is not a huge difference on the end. Cheers, -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d