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2.9 KiB
Groff
61 lines
2.9 KiB
Groff
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.\" Copyright 2004, 2005 X.Org Foundation, LLC
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.\" Copyright (c) 1993, 1994, 1996 X Consortium
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.\"
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.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
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.\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
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.\" to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
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.\" the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
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.\" and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
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.\" Software furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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.\"
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.\" The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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.\" all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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.\"
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.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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.\" IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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.\" FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
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.\" THE X.ORG FOUNDATION BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
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.\" WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF
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.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
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.\" SOFTWARE.
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.\"
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.TH XORGFOUNDATION __miscmansuffix__ __xorgversion__
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.SH NAME
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XOrgFoundation \- X.Org Foundation information
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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Release 6.7 and later of X Version 11 is brought to you by the
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X.Org Foundation.
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The X.Org Foundation is a member project of Software in the Public Interest
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(SPI), an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charity
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corporation. It was formed in 2004 as the successor to the X.Org Group at
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The Open Group. The purpose of the X.Org Foundation is to foster the
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development, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System, a
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comprehensive set of vendor-neutral, system-architecture neutral,
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network-transparent windowing and user interface standards. Membership
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in the X.Org Foundation is free and open to anyone. The X.Org Foundation
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hosts public git repositories of the source code on freedesktop.org.
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.PP
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The X Window System was created in the mid-1980s at the Massachusetts
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Institute of Technology. In 1988, MIT formed a member-funded consortium to
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provide the technical and administrative leadership necessary to support
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further development of the X Window System. In 1992, MIT and the membership
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decided it was in their best interests to move the consortium out of MIT and
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create an independent, stand-alone organization. All rights to the X Window
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System were assigned by MIT to X Consortium, Inc. on January 1, 1994. On
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December 31, 1996 the X Consortium, Inc. closed its doors and all rights
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to the X Window System were assigned to The Open Group (then known as the
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Open Software Foundation).
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.PP
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.SH "ADDRESSES"
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The X.Org Foundation's web site is https://www.x.org/
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.SH "ADDRESSES"
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SPI's web site is https://spi-inc.org/
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.PP
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The X.Org Foundation's public ftp site is ftp://ftp.x.org/
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.PP
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The X.Org Foundation's public source repositories are at
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https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg
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.fi
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