XORGFOUNDATION(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual 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 In-
terest (SPI), an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charity corpora-
tion. 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 devel-
opment, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System, a comprehen-
sive set of vendor-neutral, system-architecture neutral, network-trans-
parent 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 consortium
to provide the technical and administrative leadership necessary to sup-
port 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 organization. All
rights to the X Window System were assigned by MIT to X Consortium, Inc.
on January 1, 1994. On December 31, 1996 the X Consortium, Inc. closed
its doors and all rights to the X Window System were assigned to The
Open Group (then known as the Open Software Foundation).
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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