On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Marc-André Moreau wrote:
rule. In our case, 1.0 will be a rewrite of FreeRDP using a bottom-up approach,
accepting only Apache contributions
from day 1. This means that we are rewriting some of the most major FreeRDP
components like libfreerdp-core, but it
...
There are some aspects of 1.0 that need to be unambiguous to everyone. First,
it is a *rewrite*, meaning it is not
a fork of FreeRDP itself, and it is not a fork of rdesktop. If the FreeRDP 0.x
series were a fork of rdesktop, it
won’t be the case of the FreeRDP 1.x series. License-wise, here is how you can
make the distinction:
We are glad that you are really trying to respect the GPL license.
However, it seems like a difficult task of rewriting such a complex
software in only a few months without taking shortcuts. After all, the
branch that is now called FreeRDP-old is about 100000 lines of code.
Running the "comparator" against the FreeRDP-old and FreeRDP-1.0 branch
shows that there are 988 equal segments of 3 lines or more. If you go up
to shred size 10, there are still 231 matches. Looking at the first match,
dvcman.c, clearly shows that the 1.0 branch is not a complete rewrite but
rather an evolved version.
We believe that there is still a risk that FreeRDP 1.0 is derived from our
copyrighted rdesktop work. Still, we understand that others might think
differently, and that it will be difficult to reach a full consensus at
this point. Therefore, we will not pursue this matter any further for now.
Rgds,
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