At 10:06 PM 5/16/2000 -0400, Rick Scott wrote:
>People seem to be trivializing the license problem. One of the biggest
>problems
>that I see with it goes as follows....
>
>- I contribute something to OpenMotif to make it a better product.
>
>- I cannot use those contributions on any of my comercial HP's, Sun's,
>whatever. I wrote it, but I can't use it????
I am not a lawyer... But I seem to remember that the original owner of a
code, can make it available under different licenses and copyrights. For
example, The Open Group is making Motif available under 2 copyrights and 2
license agreements with different rights, obligations and fees.
I suspect that you could make additions that you write available under both
LGPL and the IBM Public license as modified by The Open Group.
This is certainly a hassle, but it at least preserves your access to your
own code.
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