Freedesktop.org: its past and its future

Posted Oct 4, 2018 1:10 UTC (Thu) by paravoid (subscriber, #32869)
Parent article: Freedesktop.org: its past and its future

Does the X.Org Foundation still exist as a separate entity? I was under the impression that SPI would take over its role (but the X.Org project would maintain its autonomy otherwise, as is typical for SPI associated projects). https://www.x.org/wiki/XorgFoundation/ seems to point to SPI links for donations, but https://www.x.org/foundation/ still mentions a separate 501(c)3. I'd be curious to know the current status.

Freedesktop.org: its past and its future

Posted Oct 4, 2018 7:58 UTC (Thu) by blackwood (guest, #44174) [Link] (2 responses)

Uh, that's an old link. Current version is at https://www.x.org/wiki/XorgFoundation/. And yes X.org isn't its own 501(c)3 anymore.

Thanks for spotting the old one, I removed it. How did you find that? Just in case there's more stuff to remove.

Freedesktop.org: its past and its future

Posted Oct 4, 2018 12:30 UTC (Thu) by paravoid (subscriber, #32869) [Link] (1 responses)

I just Googled "x.org foundation" :) The first three results were:
1) https://www.x.org/wiki/XorgFoundation/
2) https://www.x.org/
3) www.x.org/foundation/

Thanks for the clarification! I'm confused by the article now though. It still refers to the "X.Org Foundation" and "looking at making some fairly small by-law changes". If there is no separate Foundation anymore, do bylaws even exist?

Freedesktop.org: its past and its future

Posted Oct 4, 2018 17:41 UTC (Thu) by blackwood (guest, #44174) [Link]

It's not bylaws of a legal organization, but just the rules a bunch of people decided upon to run their collaboration. We're not the only ones, for example Debian also is a member project of SPI, and they have the Debian constitution to decide how they want to run things.

This insofar matters as SPI will head the requests (within their own legal limits) of the official representative of a project. So that's why these "bylaws/constitution" documents do actually matter, but it's entirely up to SPI whether they want to obey them or pick someone else as official representative of a project.