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Re: xorg & xfree86



On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 17:22 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> xfree86 changed its licence to something not very free, so what
> happened is that xorg foundation took the last remaining
> freely-licenced xfree86 code and renamed it xorg, then started working
> on that.

I think the actual license change simply was the final straw. See the
Wikipedia article about XFree86, especially the part about "dissent
within the project".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFree86

It really nice to see how development of X has flourished since the
split from XFree86.

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Sven Arvidsson
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