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Date:      Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:27:49 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Joe Yandle <joe@wlcg.com>
Cc:        Anthony Kimball <alk@pobox.com>, nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freebsd thread-question
Message-ID:  <199911181927.MAA16545@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.991118133154.3539A-100000@sith.wlcg.com>
References:  <14388.17489.519655.157704@avalon.east> <Pine.LNX.3.96.991118133154.3539A-100000@sith.wlcg.com>

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> > Personally, I would be overjoyed by a Lesstif version.
> 
> I hadn't thought about that.  Since Lesstif is LGPL, you could legally
> distribute it dynamically linked.  Wasn't it the static linking of Motif
> that's holding things up now?

I have 'legal' issues with LessTif.  I'm concerned about the legality of
the LessTif source code (how it was obtained), and I don't want to
involve SRI, myself, or FreeBSD in any potential problems.

Call me paranoid, but I'm just not willing to distribute a binary
version linked against Lesstif, or distribute with a Lesstif library.

Plus the fact that the Lesstif version works very poorly and requiere
hacks to the JDK sources that I'm no longer aware of makes it a
non-choice in my mind. :(



Nate


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