I guess to have more developers use MOTIF for non open source projects.
Suhaib
Rick Scott wrote:
>
> 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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