XOrgFoundation(7) - NetBSD Manual Pages

XORGFOUNDATION(7)                                            XORGFOUNDATION(7)




NAME

       XOrgFoundation - X.Org Foundation information


SYNOPSIS

       Release  6.7  and  later of X Version 11 is brought to you by the X.Org
       Foundation.


DESCRIPTION

       The X.Org Foundation is a member project  of  Software  in  the  Public
       Interest (SPI), an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charity corpo-
       ration.  It was formed in 2004 as the successor to the X.Org  Group  at
       The  Open  Group.  The purpose of the X.Org Foundation is to foster the
       development, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System, a  com-
       prehensive set of vendor-neutral, system-architecture neutral, network-
       transparent windowing and user interface standards. Membership  in  the
       X.Org Foundation is free and open to anyone. The X.Org Foundation hosts
       public git repositories of the source code on freedesktop.org.

       The X Window System was created in the mid-1980s at  the  Massachusetts
       Institute  of  Technology.  In 1988, MIT formed a member-funded consor-
       tium to provide the technical and administrative  leadership  necessary
       to  support  further  development of the X Window System.  In 1992, MIT
       and the membership decided it was in their best interests to  move  the
       consortium  out of MIT and create an independent, stand-alone organiza-
       tion.  All rights to the X Window System were assigned by MIT to X Con-
       sortium,  Inc.  on  January 1, 1994. On December 31, 1996 the X Consor-
       tium, Inc. closed its doors and all rights to the X Window System  were
       assigned  to  The  Open  Group (then known as the Open Software Founda-
       tion).



ADDRESSES

       The X.Org Foundation's web site is https://www.x.org/


ADDRESSES

       SPI's web site is https://spi-inc.org/

       The X.Org Foundation's public ftp site is ftp://ftp.x.org/

       The X.Org Foundation's public source repositories are  at  https://git-
       lab.freedesktop.org/xorg



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