From owner-freebsd-java Thu Nov 18 11:28: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886F214D10 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:27:56 -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 (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA01520; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:27:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA16545; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:27:49 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:27:49 -0700 Message-Id: <199911181927.MAA16545@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Joe Yandle Cc: Anthony Kimball , nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd thread-question In-Reply-To: References: <14388.17489.519655.157704@avalon.east> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message