XOrg vs XFree86

Matt Morgan matt.morgan-fedora-list at brooklynmuseum.org
Fri Mar 26 20:51:18 UTC 2004


And for clarity: at the moment, XOrg is just the last release of XFree86 
before the license change. So it should really not cause much trouble 
(at least for now).

There has been a lot of discussion about this on slashdot.org. If you 
search for stories about XOrg and XFree86 in the last month or two, and 
view comments with a filter set so you only see high-moderated comments, 
a few of them did a good job of explaining the situation.

On 03/26/2004 03:31 PM, Richard Welty wrote:

>On 26 Mar 2004 15:23:04 -0500 Chris A Czerwinski <chrisczerwinski at cogeco.ca> wrote:
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>
>>Have I missed something? 
>>How come XFree86 has been dropped?
>>or better still can XFree86 run on FC?
>>    
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>
>the XFree86 folks changed their licensing, which has triggered
>a fork. XFree86 will seemingly be included in fewer open source
>projects in the future.
>
>Fedora isn't the only OS that is dropping XFree86 (just as it isn't
>the only OS that has stuck at MySQL 3 rather than jumping to 4.)
>
>richard
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