Martin Cracauer wrote:
>
> 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/
Huh? The license makes it quite useful, IMHO.
> "Free for use on Operating Systems that are themself Open Source"
> (note the blank), otherwise with something like a GPL virus, but
(blank? what blank?)
> 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's because GPL is brain-damaged. It is, essentially, incompatible
with anything but GPL. Even the BSD license had to have a clause removed
(and I'm still doubtful if this makes it "compatible" with GPL).
> that you can make it non-OpenSource at will, no essential system parts
> of FreeBSD may be linked to it.
We do have a lot of GPLed code in the system, which cannot be made
non-OpenSource.
Anyway, the license does not contaminate linked programs. It says so
explicitly. In this respect, it is much better than GPL. Also, since X
is a separate component, it would be no burden to distribute it with the
system. Honestly, I don't know of a single BSD-based solution out there
that would have had the least trouble had Motif with the above license
been distributed with FreeBSD.
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