On 16-May-00 at 22:43, Mark Hatch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 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.
However, if this code is part of OpenMotif, let's say added functionality to
Primitive.c, how do I manage to utilize this on a comercial OS, with a bundled
non-OpenMotif???
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