Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!jim From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Where can one find X-windows source Message-ID: <8808151358.AA13212@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 15 Aug 88 13:58:28 GMT References: <5972@dasys1.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 28 > Pardon my innocence but I have heard that the X-windows source is in > the public domain. Is this true? Not exactly. The X Window System is not in the public domain, but it is freely available. The difference is that MIT and other organizations maintain copyrights that do not restrict redistribution so that the lineage of the various pieces can be traced. > If so, where can I obtain the source? If you have ARPA Internet access you can use anonymous ftp to retreive it yourself from any of the following sites (try to do it during the evening or the weekend, if possible): West decwrl.dec.com X/X.V11R2/ East uunet.uu.net pub/X.V11R2/ Northeast expo.lcs.mit.edu pub/X.V11R2/ Otherwise, you can contact the MIT Technology Licensing Office and order the full 2 tape set (core and user-contributed distributions on 9-track magnetic tape in Unix tar format along with printed versions of most of the major documents) for $400. Their phone number is (617) 253-6966. Jim Fulton MIT X Consortium