Another OSS project ends

[Kenneth E. Lussier]

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
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