FW: Re: Xfree86 4.4 vs Xorg Wrap-up
"georgina o. economou" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.xfree86.forum |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
as Tom graciously noted, this should be on forum. --- On Fri 03/26, Alan Coopersmith < [email protected] > wrote: From: Alan Coopersmith [mailto: [email protected]]To: [email protected]: [email protected], [email protected]: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:48:56 -0800Subject: Re: Xfree86 4.4 vs Xorg Wrap-upFrancois Isabelle wrote:> 3 - Xorg forked XFree86 due to these licensing considerationsThe X.Org Foundation is the latest incarnation of a string of organizationsgoing back to the original MIT X Consortium that have produced the X WindowSystem software releases for over 15 years. XFree86 forked from the XConsortium years ago, and ever since code has flowed back and forth bothways. Xorg is not a "new fork of XFree86" - all that has happened is thatthe original X Window System open source distribution has been opened up toa more modern open source style development process and interest in it haspicked back up. This was in progress for a year before XFree86 changed theirlicense - the l icense change just gave more distributions incentive to change.To make it easier for them to do so, the XFree86 4.4 portions not covered bythe new license were folded into the X11R6.6 tree to produce the upcomingX11R6.7 release.(The work on reviving X.Org came out of the traditional Unix vendors wantingto open up X.Org to greater participation from the Linux, BSD, and other opensource communities, and from people dissatisfied with the governance of theXFree86 Project. See the archives of the [email protected] mailing listfor all the various flamefests.)-- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering_______________________________________________Devel mailing [email protected]://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!