On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:57:07PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Patrice Dumas <pertusus <at> free.fr> writes: > > device since X is all about hiding the hardware. I am currently > > discussing that with the xdm upstream maintainer, did you contact the > > kde upstream for the patch inclusion? > > Yes: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147790 > > The KDM maintainer rejected it. :-( For pretty unconvincing reasons at that: he > doesn't agree with the design (but it's the one which is advocated by the > ConsoleKit developers and which would allow implementing true fast user > switching in KDM later) and he doesn't want GPL (as opposed to X11-licensed) > code in the KDM backend (which makes no sense because the frontend is already > GPL and because merges back to XDM aren't going to happen anyway, because as > you said, the code has diverged a lot). (Part of the code is GPL because it's > derived from the GDM implementation.) I think he is right on one point, libck-connector should be used instead of picking the gdm code, it is under the MIT, and it is better to use a lib to reuse code instead of cut and paste. gdm should certainly also use libck-connector. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
