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XORGFOUNDATION(7) 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 a member project of Software in the Public In- terest (SPI), an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charity corpora- tion. 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 foster the devel- opment, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System, a comprehen- sive set of vendor-neutral, system-architecture neutral, network-trans- parent windowing and user interface standards. Membership in the X.Org Foundation is free and open to anyone. The X.Org Foundation hosts pub- lic git repositories of the source code on freedesktop.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 https://www.x.org/ ADDRESSES SPI's web site is https://spi-inc.org/ The X.Org Foundation's public ftp site is ftp://ftp.x.org/ The X.Org Foundation's public source repositories are at https://git- lab.freedesktop.org/xorg X Version 11 xorg-docs 1.7.3 XORGFOUNDATION(7)