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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2000 11:49:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can we use this for the JDK? (was: Motif goes open source)
Message-ID:  <200005161849.LAA60111@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3920F59C.E6EEDF42@mindspring.com> from W Gerald Hicks at "May 16, 2000 00:15:40 am"

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W Gerald Hicks wrote:
> "Koster, K.J." wrote:
> > 
> > In what form is Motif going to be available to the general FreeBSD
> > developer? Am I going to find /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/motif anytime soon, or
> > is this going to be more complicated than that?
> > 
> 
> As Poul-Henning Kamp noted earlier we have licenses in the ports tree
> that are *much* stranger than this one.  I'd be very surprised if we
> don't see an entry in ports/x11-toolkits for Motif sometime soon.
> 
> I'd also be very interested in what the "Hungry Programmers" have to say
> about this new development.
> 

http://www.lesstif.org/future.html

Basically, LessTif is still a viable/valuable toolkit because you can't
use Open Motif on any proprietary OS.

-- 
Steve


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