From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 4 13:33:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA03711 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:33:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA03697; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:33:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA19259; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:32:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA27210; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:32:52 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:32:52 -0700 Message-Id: <199712042132.OAA27210@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: hsu@freebsd.org (Jeffrey Hsu), hackers@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: shared library with static Motif? In-Reply-To: <199712041956.MAA12406@usr09.primenet.com> References: <199712040819.AAA02089@hub.freebsd.org> <199712041956.MAA12406@usr09.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Is there a way to create a shared library with references to Motif routines > > resolved statically so one doesn't have to also distribute a Motif shared > > library? > > This is specifically disallowed in your Motif license. Actually, it depends on which version of Motif you are talking about. Motif 1.2 didn't have this restriction. > I wonder how OSF feels about JAVA being able to pop up Motif widgets > in Netscape? Since Sun is one of the OSF folks who 'own' Motif I doubt they have anything to say about it. Nate