Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:49:02 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motif goes open source Message-ID: <20000515114902.A24268@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <20000515114002.A64473@cons.org>; from cracauer@cons.org on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:40:02AM %2B0200 References: <4.3.1.2.20000515080753.00abfd70@gid.co.uk> <20000515114002.A64473@cons.org>
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In <20000515114002.A64473@cons.org>, Martin Cracauer wrote: > In <4.3.1.2.20000515080753.00abfd70@gid.co.uk>, Bob Bishop wrote: > > "The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to > > enterprise integration, announced today that it is releasing the source > > code of Motif, using a public license, to the Open Source community." > > > > Full details at http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif > > The license seems to make it quite useless. > http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/ > > "Free for use on Operating Systems that are themself Open Source" > (note the blank), otherwise with something like a GPL virus, Ops, sorry, I was mislead. They use the term "Program" for the Motif library, not the application you link to. So it does not infect your own code that uses this library, you just have to ship source for your modifications to the Motif library. Still, it is of course vastly incomatible to the GPL. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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