One thing I keep thinking about is, would I be getting involved with LessTif if
the situations was as it is now?? Personally, I'm not too sure right yet. Sure
the source is out now, but it is still controlled by TOG. How receptive are
they going to be to contributions from "outsiders". The license is not as open
as it could be, probably because of past commitments. They state "For now this
is as close as to Open Source as we could get." I can't help but wonder why??
What has to change for them to change the license?? This one sort of bothers me
also
"The motivation is recognition of the importance of Open
Source operating systems in the industry. The public
availability of Motif will allow the many Motif applications
to more easily be made available on Open Source platforms
, thus increasing the variety o applications available,
delivering greater choice for buyers and a larger market for
vendors."
It seems that despite the .org in the name, they want to keep the cash rolling
in.
I subscribed to all of the mailing lists early Monday morning (my time), and
even though there are posts shown in thier archive, I have seen nothing in my
mailbox. Maybe they are simply overloaded, maybe I shouldn't have used
lesstif.org as my email address. I just filled out the form for the free
validation test suite, we'll see how far that goes.
Until a CVS server goes up, and I see some patches from the outside accepted, I
don't really know how to take the TOG commitment to this. As for contributions
from me, I'm still trying to figure out what I can, and can't do :)
