On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:18:38PM -0700, David Johnson wrote: > > >The rights granted under this license are limited solely to distribution > > >and sublicensing of the Contribution(s) on, with, or for operating systems > > >which are themselves Open Source programs > > > > Which puts it in the same category as Qt v1: not DFSG-free, free or Open > > Source. > > This got me to thinking. Perhaps the QPL (QTv2+) is the perfect license > for what the Open Group needs... > > Would the Open Group be willing to take a lateral step and restrict > the usage of OpenMotif to linkage with Open Source programs only? Their > cash cow would remain intact, but their software would be fully Open > Source, as well as Free Software.
I would seriously ask TOG to rewrite two or three of the clauses in the QPL as a matter of enforcability for one and awful ambiguities for another. The QPL ended up not what I expected at all. There are a couple of clauses in that license that are truly terrible and reading through the thing you can see that clearly if you speak English (or some variant of) natively. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 * boren tosses matlab across the room and hopes it breaks into a number aproaching infinite peices
