From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 15 8:16:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2A6237BA1E for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 08:16:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA20258; Mon, 15 May 2000 11:14:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200005151514.LAA20258@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:13:29 -0400 To: Poul-Henning Kamp , "Daniel C. Sobral" From: Dennis Subject: Re: Motif goes open source Cc: Martin Cracauer , Bob Bishop , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4701.958389202@critter.freebsd.dk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:13 PM 5/15/00 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >Since X11 is an optional (3rd party even) component of FreeBSD, >the license on Motif is not really a big issue: it will always be >a port in FreeBSD, it will not be part of the base system. > >We have other ports with far weirder licenses. > >Only too bad it took them 10 years to realize what the key to a >success in the UNIX world is :-( That is, if your definition of "success" is wide-spread use rather than profits.... I think that Sun and Oracle are doing rather well. DB Emerging Technologies, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- http://www.etinc.com ISA and PCI T1/T3/V35/HSSI Cards for FreeBSD and LINUX Multiport T1 and HSSI/T3 UNIX-based Routers Bandwidth Management Standalone Systems Bandwidth Management software for LINUX and FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message