I've wanted to avoid an "official fork" as long as possible, feeling that it could in the end work against everyone's best interest, but this all depends on the upstream (freedesktop.org/novell) developers. I realize their goals probably differ somewhat from mine / those of us who work through compiz.net, which has lead to the divergence. If it comes down to it though, in the spirit of the GPL, I am not against managing my tree as a semi-fork (I'd still sync with updates from freedesktop cvs of course, as davidr and friends often commit important updates) Also, I want to point out, another potential issue with the current freedesktop codebase is that (and this is NOT something I know for sure) the novell team MIGHT want to keep it dual-licensed, and not everyone wants to submit to something under those terms. (I myself am a GPL gal, but am somewhat flexible if it is necessary)
Anyhow, those are my incoherent ramblings. On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:20:24 +0200 "Wulf C. Krueger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Guillaume! > > "GS" == Guillaume Seguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GS> During the 5 months since Compiz was released lots of work has > GS> been done outside of the official team by the new Compiz > GS> community in order to improve Compiz's features and usability. > > This issue has been raised several times already. (Xinerama and > others...) > > If I were you, I'd just branch "officially" and compete. > > Reading this mailing list, a few others, Gentoo & Ubuntu forums, etc. > it seems pretty clear to me which version the users prefer > currently. :-) > > GS> Finally, we were wondering if it'd be possible to discuss with > GS> you a bit more of what we're doing, what you are doing, > > I'd love to know, too. Never got an answer to questions concerning the > future development on- or off-list from one of the official devs. > Other users were very helpful (but couldn't answer all my questions) > but the rest was silence. > _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
