I wanted to understand the reasoning, so, here's the summary section of the README (with my commentary):
Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups and enhanced functionality.
Ok. That sounds reasonable. A little long for an initial README/manpage line but not bad.
This fork was necessary since toxic elements within Xorg projects, moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to eliminate competition of their own products. Classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics.
Hrm...seems a bit historically inaccurate, as Wayland was created by an X.org dev and the reasons for deprecating are related to performance, security, and moving away from dated architecture. Also a bit intense and opinion-based for technical writing. Maybe the guy is just passionate and hyper-focused on X11?
Right after journalists first began covering the planned fork Xlibre, on June 6th 2025, Redhat employees started a purge on the Xlibre founder's GitLab account on freedesktop.org: deleted the git repo, tickets, merge requests, etc, and so fired the shot that the whole world heard.
That...sounds even more weird to put in a README or manpage because it has nothing to do with usage or development instructions and seems like the guy is taking it very personally.
This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies.
Why is he writing "Big Tech" in upper-camel case? That's kinda weird. And the dev is treating "Big Tech".replace(" ", "") as a singular corporate entity with subsidiaries?
"Political activists groups"
...?...Ok that's a bit weird and the pluralizing of "activist" looks grammatically problematic.Going in a pretty weird direction.
state actors, etc
I've not been aware of any xz-like issue being found in Wayland but, maybe I missed something.
It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies.
Oh. This is a racist. Things make a lot more sense now.
... Anybody who's treating others nicely is welcomed.
It doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you're furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a boring average person. Anybody who's interested in bringing X forward is welcome.
Conspicuously missing LGBTQ+ people but, maybe that's what they mean when using the derogatory "fairy"?
a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri
DO NOT USE WORDS FROM OUR SACRED BOOK IN YOUR UNHINGED PRO-DISCRIMINATORY RANT MASQUERADING AS A README.
Together we'll make X great again!
Repurposed neo-nazi rhetoric. Gross.
Significant mention in the thread of freedesktop.org Code of Conduct violations. I can likely guess but, let's see what that's about.
Code of Conduct freedesktop.org has adopted the Contributor Covenant for all the services we host. Please conduct yourself in an appropriate manner, avoiding abusive, bullying, and/or discriminatory behaviour. For more information, including where to report any inappropriate behaviour, please consult the full Code of Conduct.
Ok. That seems to be pretty thoroughly reasonable for anyone who does not have strongly held discriminatory feelings. What did he (git blame for the changes shows that it was metux ) do/say?
Looking through the thread, there's a Mastodon post showing
Digging deeper, it appears that the freedesktop.org CoC Committee is not very open in its decision making so, it's not clear what part of the CoC was broken.