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X11: Where do we go from here?
X11: Where do we go from here?
Posted Feb 26, 2004 14:42 UTC (Thu) by branden (subscriber, #7029)In reply to: X11: Where do we go from here? by daniels
Parent article: X11: Where do we go from here?
Daniel,
Did LWN quote you correctly?
XFree86 did not get started when The Open Group relicensed X (with the X11R6.4 release). They had already been around for years. To my knowledge, the XFree86 Project got started as a fork of X386, which initially used the MIT/X11 license but then went proprietary. This goes back to 1993 or so.
At least, that's the history as I remember seeing it regurgitated in bits and chunks over the years on various mailing lists. I wasn't around for the actual events.
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X11: Where do we go from here?
Posted Feb 26, 2004 20:11 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
Nothing you've said about TOG/X386/XFree86 is incorrect. I just expressedmyself when I was trying to say that XFree86 became more or less the canonical
X effort, largely replacing TOG.
X11: Where do we go from here?
Posted Feb 26, 2004 22:42 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
'expressed myself badly'. sigh.