Another OSS project ends

Dan Jenkins dan at rastech.com
Tue Mar 2 08:43:05 EST 2004


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.)

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