Another OSS project ends
In case people missed this, the FreeS/WAN project has decided to end development. They have posted a letter stating their reasons here http://www.freeswan.org/ending_letter.html . I, for one, am very sad to see the project end, as it is one of the best IPSec implementations, and they were quite open about how and why they made the design choices that they did. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Another OSS project ends
Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: In case people missed this, the FreeS/WAN project has decided to end development. They have posted a letter stating their reasons here http://www.freeswan.org/ending_letter.html . I, for one, am very sad to see the project end, as it is one of the best IPSec implementations, and they were quite open about how and why they made the design choices that they did. It's already been picked up and the project is now named OpenSWAN with code available here: http://www.openswan.org/ Apparently it had already forked. Death [of a project] is not final for open source. (Disinterest in a project might kill it, but the source lives on, FWIW.) -- Dan Jenkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Rastech Inc., Bedford, NH, USA --- 1-603-624-7272 *** Technical Support for over a Quarter Century ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Another OSS project ends
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 08:43, Dan Jenkins wrote: It's already been picked up and the project is now named OpenSWAN with code available here: http://www.openswan.org/ Apparently it had already forked. FreeS/WAN has been forked many times over the past five years. Usually it is because of their refusal to accept patches or code of any kind from anyone in the U.S. KAME and USAGI are both based on FS, but they used the 1.9 tree as their base, and they excluded the Opertunistic Encryption. I'll have to take a look at the OpenSwan project to see how they have progressed. Death [of a project] is not final for open source. (Disinterest in a project might kill it, but the source lives on, FWIW.) This is true. It is, IMNSHO, one of the best aspects of F/OSS. Even if the license is changed to make it no longer F/OSS, the previous releases will always remain, and if the project is good enough, then it will be picked up. C-Ya, Kenny signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
