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Subject: Re: Offtopic: x.org verus xFree86?
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On 6/8/07, Jack Barnett <jackbarnett@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone know why x.org split from xFree86?  From what I can tell it looks
> the same (same files, same options etc)... was it just a licensing
> change or something like that?
>

I believe it had to do with the developers having differing ideas
about how X should be developed. I don't think XFree86 is under active
development anymore. Most developers left to join the forked Xorg
project.

-Modulok-