From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 16 0: 8:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from maynard.mail.mindspring.net (maynard.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB63A37B968 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 00:08:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-33qtilv.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.202.191]) by maynard.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA19242 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 03:08:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3920F59C.E6EEDF42@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 00:15:40 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can we use this for the JDK? (was: Motif goes open source) References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7520@l04.research.kpn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Koster, K.J." wrote: > > Dear all, > > Is there someone on this list who's into the finer points of copyrighting? I > would like to know what the implications are of this for the > soon-to-be-coming native FreeBSD JDK port. > > 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. All in all, I think this was a good day for open-source software. :-) Cheers, Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message