RE: Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3

["Dr. Rich Murphey" <Rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: forum-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:forum-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of mark kandianis
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 1:37 PM
> To: forum@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3
> 
> At 11:17 AM 2/22/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> >Alan Coopersmith writes:
> > > Dr. Rich Murphey wrote: X.org abandoned its
> > > > code base and adopted the whole XFree86
> > > > code base, and did so prior to the
> > > > license change.  Perhaps there's a better
> > > > description than 'fork' but I can't think
> > > > of it.
> > >
> > > If you look at the CVS trees, they start
> > > with X11R6.6 and then merge in changes from
> > > XFree86.  The old code base wasn't
> > > abandoned, but XFree86 was mostly a
> > > superset of it, so you end up at pretty
> > > much the same place.
> >
> >Yes, that's a good technical description of
> >the way in which the SI was abandoned in
> >favor of the latest XFree86 release.
> >
> > > In any case, I think we're both trying to
> > > say that the original description of what
> > > X.org is doing forking because of license
> > > concerns isn't correct.  X.org and it's
> > > various previous incarnations have
> > > maintained a separate fork for years, and
> > > haven't started a new one just to deal with
> > > the license concerns.
> >
> >Here's how I'd look at it.
> >
> >XC folded for lack of vendor support.
> >X.org was created to hold the assets (eg. the SI).
> >X.org abandoned the SI and forked XFree86.
> 
> 
> sorry about the prev question. so i guess you could say that
> X.org folder for lack of vendor support and is now x.org the foundation?
> is there any diff in any of these orgs?  or is as alan says, they are all
> basically the same? an outgrowth of the xc?
> 
> 
> mark.

XC folded for lack of vendor support.  When the XC folded, it transferred
all assets to The Open Group.  The Open Group formed X.org with a membership
composed of many of the same vendors.

X.org is creating a foundation, again composed of many of the same vendors.

Rich


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