Re: anti-systemd/wayland = fascist? do we need this stupidity?

Solomon Peachy via Ale wrote on 2025-12-01 13:04:

>> X.org forked to become Xlibre and they are patching a ton of bugs. 
>> X is still a thing and many of the main distros are blocking any 
>> one that talks about Xlibre or brings up to use it.
> 
> s/fixing/introducing/
> 
> (One doesn't get to claim credit for fixing
> bugs that only exist within their own fork)

Thank you for mentioning this.

I'll provide some links for context:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Lots-Of-Reverts

That discusses the many reverted commits due to bugs, unauthorized
(illegal?) changes of license, etc:

> There was this revert for not handling copyright and license
> notices correctly. Some existing code macros were moved to a new
> file while dropping the existing copyright holders from being
> mentioned in the new file and only adding the new contributor to
> that header file. The code license was also changed from MIT AND X11
> to MIT OR X11.

Brodie Robertson's YouTube discusses it:

> Xorg XLibre Code Reverts Have Truly Begun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jps3H-AVDlo

> ...Which is the second reason why said distros mostly want nothing 
> to do with Xlibre, the first being the fundamental question of "why 
> bother" given that they are already committed to ditching (native) X 
> entirely. There's no upside, and a_lot_ of downsides.

Possible 3rd reason - the fork maintainer, who got banned from the Xorg
gitlab seems a bit trollish and rather unserious:

https://x11libre.net/#about

> It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory 
> policies.

> Together we'll make X great again!

So, MAGA for X? Doesn't seem like a long-term viable project. I dunno.


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