In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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
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