On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:13:37AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > We do not need to justify the need for our project before it is > announced or even after it is announced. It is free to conflict with > RedHat's systemd project. If we find next year that we can reconcile > with Kay Sievers and Lennart Poettering, then we are free to do that. > These projects need not be long term commitments.
systemd is not a "Red Hat" project at all. It just happens to have some of the developers of it working for them. If that is their job to develop it or not, is unknown to all of us. Also, in the beginning of systemd, a lot of the code, and research, was done by someone working for a distro different than Red Hat. systemd is a freedesktop.org project, that is all, please don't play this as a distro-vs-distro issue, otherwise it will end up looking like it is a "Gentoo vs. the world" thing, and I, as a long-term Gentoo developer, do not want that at all. So, I'll say this again, why is this project getting the copyright of the Gentoo Foundation? Is it an "official" project of Gentoo in some manner? And, to all of you who have emailed me privately saying they don't want to talk about this on-list, that's what gentoo-core is for, I'd be glad to take it there if you feel gentoo-dev is to "public" for stuff like this. Otherwise, this is opensource, we do development in the open, not in private. thanks, greg k-h
