Subject: X.Org and portability To: None <> From: Matthew Mondor
<> List: tech-x11 Date: 07/28/2004 04:48:20 Hi all,  We have
noticed lately that the X.Org project is gaining alot of
popularity, to a point where the original XFree86 project is
nearly to a point where it will become much less active in the
future. Some BSD and Linux systems are now migrating to it
(notably FreeBSD). The license related issues are minimal, and
do not seem to consist of the actual basis of the fork. Anyways,
the addition of an advertizing clause making the license "not
GPL compatible" is probably the least of BSD users concerns.  At
the current stage, X.Org is very close to the XF86 4 tree still.
There are several concerns which NetBSD users have having
pertaining to it's portability, and the fact that several
architectures are still using XF86 3.3, and they are no less
important than other architectures to us NetBSD users. Moreover,
it appears that a fair number of architectures are still using
the older tree, which means that t