On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> The original rdesktop smart card implementation was done by a "Alexi Volkov" >> back in 2006. Since then, at lot of work has been done by colleagues of >> mine. The recent Kerberos and CredSSP work has been done by Henrik Andersson >> <hea...@cendio.se>. >> >> Please observe that due to the licensing issue, no code may flow from >> rdesktop to FreeRDP. > > A shame; two non-complete RDP clients. It'd be way better to have joined > forces.
In a way I agree with you, and I was actually surprised to see that FreeRDP had forked rdesktop without trying to reach consensus first. On the other hand, there were and still are fundamental issues which prevents a closer cooperation. I believe one of the main reasons why the fork was done was that some developers found it difficult to cooperate with some rdesktop developers. Later, when FreeRDP decided to try to change to the Apache license, the rift became even bigger. Recent discussions on this topic has confirmed that we have a different opinion not only on which license is the best for an Open Source RDP client, but also that that we have a fundamentally different view on copyright in general, and what you must do in practice to fulfill the GPL license. It's no secret that one of the recent issues was the "Ulteo" App on the Apple AppStore. We claimed that it contained our copyrighted code. Apple apparently agreed with our position, since the app has been removed. Obviously, this makes us even more confident that our interpretation is sound. Best regards, --- Peter Astrand ThinLinc Chief Developer Cendio AB http://cendio.com Teknikringen 8 http://twitter.com/ThinLinc 583 30 Linkoping http://facebook.com/ThinLinc Phone: +46-13-214600 http://plus.google.com/112509906846170010689 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
