If I had my druthers, I would prefer that a third party develop a CSF replacement that works with both DirectAdmin and cPanel (as well as panel-less hosting).
That was the nice thing about CSF is that the syntax was the same for cPanel and DirectAdmin (presumably other control panels that it worked with). The fear I have with a control panel backed CSF replacement is that it's only going to work for that control panel. DirectAdmin has no reason to insure their implementation of CSF works on cPanel servers. So then you wind up with a CSF for DirectAdmin and a CSF for cPanel.
The ONE thing I would encourage, for anyone that's forking off of CSF... call your product something else, don't reuse the CSF name. Because we're going to get to the point of "CSF over here isn't the same as CSF over there."
That was the nice thing about CSF is that the syntax was the same for cPanel and DirectAdmin (presumably other control panels that it worked with). The fear I have with a control panel backed CSF replacement is that it's only going to work for that control panel. DirectAdmin has no reason to insure their implementation of CSF works on cPanel servers. So then you wind up with a CSF for DirectAdmin and a CSF for cPanel.
The ONE thing I would encourage, for anyone that's forking off of CSF... call your product something else, don't reuse the CSF name. Because we're going to get to the point of "CSF over here isn't the same as CSF over there."