XOrgFoundation - X.Org Foundation information
Release 6.7 and later of X Version 11 is brought to you by the X.Org Foundation.
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 an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) char-
ity corporation. 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 fos-
ter the development, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System,
a comprehensive 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 Founda-
tion hosts a public git repository of the source code on freedesk-
top.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 http://www.x.org/
The X.Org Foundation's public ftp site is ftp://ftp.x.org/
Information about the X.Org Foundation git repository is on the X.Org
web site at http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/git
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+-----------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability | x11/documentation/xorg-docs |
+---------------+-----------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+-----------------------------+
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from ['https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/doc/xorg-docs-1.7.1.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/doc/xorg-sgml-doctools-1.11.tar.bz2'].
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.x.org.
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