Hi Jon, If getting Motif and CDE relicensed under X11 someday is still desirable, I think having the CDE project become a member of Software in the Public Interest (they already help manage the legal side of X.org, etc.) could be helpful.
There are a lot of advantages of relicensing: - Less worries statically linking CDE/Motif binaries containing GPL-incompatible source code - To my knowledge, there is no major X11 widget library available under X11 terms except Xaw. This could give us a considerable boost within the *BSD community. - We would share the same license as X.org, so potentially the entire stack (X server, Xlib, Xt, Motif, CDE) would be available under uniform terms. This might encourage contributions from commercial vendors, etc. As a legal entity, SPI could hold assets (trademarks, copyrights, etc.) in trust for the CDE community indefinitely. Also, they would allow us to receive tax-deductible donations, whether money, code, computer hardware, etc. As far as I can see, we haven’t been adding the MIT license to files that have been changed, so presumably everything added is licensed under the LGPL. I don’t think anyone wants a repeat of the Motif LGPL situation of tracking contributors down and getting them to sign off. If we could arrange to offer major contributors the possibility of assigning their copyright to a group like SPI to hold in trust for CDE, that wouldn’t be a concern. Were there any plans in place for how we would go about convincing the Open Group to relicense? Kind regards, Lev > Hi Lev, > > Sorry, I don't know who this is really... What assistance are we looking > for specifically? > > -jon _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
