Yuck, this doesn't seem to be a very encouraging attitude. It makes me wonder
what the real reason for this action was....
On 15-May-00 at 20:04, Suhaib M. Siddiqi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 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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