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I was under the impression that freedesktop.org was just a methodology
of sorts for people to follow when writing code for the desktop.
Something for Gnome and KDE guys to follow to make everything happy.
I'll have to look again.
On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 00:31, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Nathan England wrote:
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> > I didn't realize there were two organizations.
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> In fact, there are more than two; I think there are at least 5 (but can't
> remember names now). (freedesktop.org is one and I have done a small
> amount of porting of XFree86 code to autoconf tools and imported to
> freedesktop.org. On some boxes I use freedesktop.org xlibs instead of
> XFree86 versions.)
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> > What is the difference, are they both free?
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> XFree86 was (years ago) a port to x86 architecture. Then they took over
> as the main (and popular) open source X11 (for other architectures too).
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> I don't know if x.org has code available. Both would be free (because of
> standard MIT-style license).
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> Jeremy C. Reed
> http://www.reedmedia.net/
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