Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:40:02 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motif goes open source Message-ID: <20000515114002.A64473@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000515080753.00abfd70@gid.co.uk>; from rb@gid.co.uk on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 08:09:49AM %2B0100 References: <4.3.1.2.20000515080753.00abfd70@gid.co.uk>
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In <4.3.1.2.20000515080753.00abfd70@gid.co.uk>, Bob Bishop wrote: > "The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to > enterprise integration, announced today that it is releasing the source > code of Motif, using a public license, to the Open Source community." > > Full details at http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif The license seems to make it quite useless. http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/ "Free for use on Operating Systems that are themself Open Source" (note the blank), otherwise with something like a GPL virus, but incompatible with the GPL. As it is not an essential system library, you may not link GPL programs to it. As the point about FreeBSD is that you can make it non-OpenSource at will, no essential system parts of FreeBSD may be linked to it. On the positive side, it seems to allow redistribution in modified form and as such is not as stupid as Sun's "Community" license. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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