CentOS 도메인 관련(?) 분쟁

 

KLDP의 게시판에 digirave님이 올리신 글을 보고 http://www.centos.org/ 에 가봤더니 도메인 분쟁관련글이

올라와 있더군요. 생각보다 심각한듯하고 상황을 지켜봐야겠습니다. 개인적인 생각도 digirave님 말씀처럼 CentOS 프로젝트

자체가 와해되거나 할것 같지는 않습니다만 도메인이 변경되거나 하는 변화의 가능성은 있어 보입니다.

아래 글은 digirave님의 글입니다.

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어제 발생한 소식 한가지, CentOS.org 도메인 가지고 있는 분하고 CentOS 메인 관리자들하고 분쟁 일어났습니다.
도메인 가지고 있는 분이 기증 받은 돈을 다 먹은 듯하기도 합니다. 어쨋든 추후에 상황을 지켜봐야하지만,

나중에 CentOS.org 에서 다른 도메인으로 변경될 가능성이 어느정도 있습니다. 그렇게 되면 CentOS 서버들을 전부다

rpm 하나 설치해서 변경해야할지도 모릅니다. 상황이 잘 해결될 수도 있으니, 그냥 지켜보는 중입니다.

CentOS.org 메인 홈페이지에 현제 분쟁 관련 공지글이 있습니다. 그래도 프로젝트가 완전히 없어질 가능성은 적어 보여서,

우선은 지켜봐도 될 것 같습니다.

참고 link:
http://www.centos.org - 메인 페이지에 현재 맨 위에 분쟁이 공지되어 있습니다.

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/30/130249

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아래는 CentOS개발자들이 쓴 공개 편지(?) 원문입니다.

Open Letter to Lance Davis

This is an Open Letter to Lance Davis from fellow CentOS Developers
It is regrettable that we are forced to send this letter but we are left with no other options. For some time now

we have been attempting to resolve these problems:
You seem to have crawled into a hole ... and this is not acceptable.
You have long promised a statement of CentOS project funds; to this date this has not appeared.
You hold sole control of the centos.org domain with no deputy; this is not proper.
You have, it seems, sole 'Founders' rights in the IRC channels with no deputy ; this is not proper.
When I (Russ) try to call the phone numbers for UK Linux, and for you individually, I get a telco intercept 'Lines are temporarily busy' for the last two weeks. Finally yesterday, a voicemail in your voice picked up, and I left a message urgently requesting a reply. Karanbir also reports calling and leaving messages without your reply.
Please do not kill CentOS through your fear of shared management of the project.
Clearly the project dies if all the developers walk away.
Please contact me, or any other signer of this letter at once, to arrange for the required information to keep the project

alive at the 'centos.org' domain.

Sincerely,
Russ Herrold, Ralph Angenendt, Karanbir Singh. Jim Perrin, Donavan Nelson, Tim Verhoeven

Tru Huynh, Johnny Hughes

Facts Regarding CentOS and the Open Letter to Lance Davis

CentOS is not dead or going away. The signers of the Open Letter are fully committed to continue the CentOS Project. Updates and new releases will continue.

The issues raised in the Open Letter have been raised privately literally for years and a voluntary resolution had been hoped for and worked toward. But progress requires follow through. We have tried contacting Lance in private for a long period of time before this Open Letter. While we received promises, there was no real response or follow through from him on promises made. We are sure he is not dead, on vacation, or sick. Once we all decided there was no movement in the matter we created the Open Letter. This is not something that appeared just recently.

We would really like to continue the project using the centos.org domain. That is one of the reasons for the Open Letter. But the developers will move to another domain if there is no other option. Protective backups are in place; hot machines exist to allow for a cutover with a simple one time installation of one RPM package. We continue to refine our plans if this might be the case, to make the transition as smooth as possible.

We thank the people who have stepped forward and want to donate to the CentOS project to hold off for now until issues surrounding the centos.org domain and donation policy are resolved. Selected donations will be privately solicited by the signers of the Open Letter on some transition matters. We will post general instructions on how you can help the project as matters become resolved.

The CentOS project is run completely by volunteers and we are aware that this requires a different management style. We have been and continue to work to prevent issues like these from occurring in the future. We will continue this effort in the future, but the matters mentioned in the Open Letter prevent us from moving forward at this moment, as they need to be resolved first.