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>Until someone clever tells you how to do you can't easily work
>on both projects w/o license violation?!
Again, with the "not a lawyer" disclaimer...
In reviewing the Open Group license, I do not see the usual onerous
confidential information clause that prevents you as a developer from using
"residuals" (i.e., things that you remember from the source code). There is
also no language claiming ownership of the algorithms, methods, design, etc.
The language of what needs to be distributed under the TOG Public License
is also interesting...
Its the Original Program (i.e., Motif 2.1.30) and Contributions which are
changes to the program or additions.
I wonder (notice the language since I am not a intellectual property
lawyer) whether this means:
1) You can look at Open Motif and as long as you don't plagiarize the code,
you can work on other similar projects (i.e., lesstif). (This is like
reading a technical book and using the understanding you gain to write some
software.)
2) Just because the code was used with Open Motif, and in one instance is
classified as a "Contribution", does not prevent it from being used in
another piece of software covered under a different license.
Any lawyers out there? This is an important point to understand because it
makes a dual development path legal or not...
It still may not make sense from an engineering viewpoint. In which case
we're back to Danny's original question on goals, etc.
Mark
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