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. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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