On Monday 19 March 2007 19:24, M Harris wrote:
> Ok, Suse fans, I just received a revelation from the XFree86.org mailing
> list which turned away an XFree (Ubuntu user) because he is using Xorg.
> Well, my Suse 10.0 uses Xorg as well... so, at least in XFree86 land, Xorg
> is no longer considered XFree86??  Is Xorg an XFree fork of sorts---?  Is
> XFree86 irrelevant now?

That happened a few years ago. XFree86 made a change to their license 
(essentially an advertising clause), and that coupled with the 
dissatisfaction with some core X developers in the working methods of XFree 
led to them departing. They took the last version of XFree (4.4) still 
licensed under the old license, and took over the X consortium's X.org web 
domain

They also took over the original code base of X (version 11, release 6.6 at 
the time)

This all happened just over two years ago, and it can all be read about on 
www.x.org

I don't think any distro still uses XFree86 (but I haven't actively looked, so 
I could be wrong)

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