From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 16 11:53:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5951E37B97A for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 11:53:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA60111; Tue, 16 May 2000 11:49:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <200005161849.LAA60111@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Can we use this for the JDK? (was: Motif goes open source) In-Reply-To: <3920F59C.E6EEDF42@mindspring.com> from W Gerald Hicks at "May 16, 2000 00:15:40 am" To: W Gerald Hicks Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:49:12 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message