From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 6 15:17:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA23086 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 15:17:27 -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 PAA23077; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 15:17:21 -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 QAA08510; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 16:17:09 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06878; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 16:17:06 -0700 Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 16:17:06 -0700 Message-Id: <199712062317.QAA06878@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: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), mike@smith.net.au, hsu@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: shared library with static Motif? In-Reply-To: <199712062013.NAA28454@usr04.primenet.com> References: <17481.881387632@time.cdrom.com> <199712062013.NAA28454@usr04.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I think what Terry's confused about is the part of the license which > > essentially attempts to disallow anyone from including the shared > > libraries and/or headers in a form which allow completely different > > applications to link against and use them. > > I think they attempt to prevent distribution of linkable non-static > libraries unless you have an "Executive" license, which makes you > a Motif Distributor. Actually, according to the JDK license Sun's grants you 'all rights and priveleges' to it's technology in order to make use of it's product, so Jeff is trying to do something with it he could arguably have legal ground to stand on. (Sun gives away SPARC Motif1.2 in ther JDK sources which can be obtained for free. But, aside from legalities the real issue hasn't been answered. Is it *technically* possible to link in a 'static' library into a 'shared' library so that the end-user doesn't need a Motif library to get access to the shared library? Nate