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Old 26th May 2009
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From the XFree86 wiki:
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Versions of XFree86 up to and including some release candidates for 4.4.0 were under the MIT License, a permissive, non-copyleft free software license. XFree86 4.4 was released in February 2004 with a change to the license: the addition of a credit clause,[1] similar to that in the original BSD license,[2] but broader in scope.

Many projects relying on XFree86 found the new license unacceptable,[3] and the Free Software Foundation considered it incompatible with the GNU General Public License. The XFree86 Project contests this, maintaining that the license is compatible with the GPL.[4]

Some projects made releases (notably OpenBSD 3.5 and 3.6, and Debian 3.1 "Sarge") based on XFree86 version 4.4 RC2, the last version under the old license. Most operating systems incorporating XFree86 (including later versions of OpenBSD and Debian) migrated to the X.Org Server.[5]
Later, Free Software Foundation has described the controversial XFree86 1.1 License as compatible with the new version 3 of the GPL, but incompatible with version 2.[6]


...The X.Org Server became the official reference implementation of X11. The first version, X11R6.7.0, was forked from XFree86 version 4.4 RC2 to avoid the XFree86 license changes, with X11R6.6 changes merged in. Version X11R6.8 added many new extensions, drivers and fixes. It is hosted by and works closely with freedesktop.org. Most of the open-source Unix-like operating systems have adopted the X.Org Server in place of XFree86, and most of the XFree86 developers moved to X.Org [10].
Oops. Missed BSDfan's post, above. Page transition in vbb.
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