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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Where can one find X-windows source
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Date: 15 Aug 88 13:58:28 GMT
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> 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