OK this what I got in rsponse to Holger's questions about OpenMOTIf for
OS/2 and Cygwin.
OSF said NO. Their statement it does not matter what technology do you
use, the Operating Systems are
not Open Source therefore, you need a Royalty Paid License for
redistribution.
So, the answer is we need to survive with LESSTIF.
Suhaib
Subject:
Re: Open MOTIF
Date:
Mon, 15 May 2000 23:15:17 +0100
From:
Howard Greenwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
"Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suhaib,
No. Windows is not an Open Source Operating System, and therefore no
matter
what technology you use to allow Open Motif to run on it, it is still a
licensable platform...
A license agreement and royalty agreement is still required.
Howard.
At 09:48 AM 5/15/00 -0400, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote:
>
>Thanks for making MOTIF OpenSource for Open Source Operating Systems.
>
>I have a technical question here.
>
>What about Cygwin, which is GPL (i.e. Open Source), and makes UNIX
>applications run/port on Windows
>Operating System. However, without Cygwin the applications compiled
>with Cygwin cannot be executed on Windows. Cygwin
>(http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin) completely satisfy Open Source
>requirements.
>Can the OpenMOTIF be compiled using Cygwin on Windows and distributed?
>
>With best regards
>
>Suhaib Siddiqi
>http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/xfree
>
Howard.
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