Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 00:15:40 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can we use this for the JDK? (was: Motif goes open source) Message-ID: <3920F59C.E6EEDF42@mindspring.com> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7520@l04.research.kpn.com>
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"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
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