On Thu, 18 May 2000, C Hennessy wrote:
> Mark Hatch wrote:
> > We're working on this over at ICS and will publish a beta in 2-4 weeks on
> > the MotifZone (phase 1 will be a manual process where a GTK+ theme is
> > converted to a "Motif Theme" that then is applied at the startup of the
> > application. Subsequent phases will make this happen on-the-fly) . We
> > should have the project description up on the Zone within the next day or
> > so. We don't have a lot of resources to spare in this effort (and other
> > efforts), so help would be appreciated after we get to alpha (if that is
> > what the lesstif team decides to do!). This will be released under the
> > (in)famous Open Group Public License...
>
> Why not setup anonymous CVS now so that people can test the alpha of it
> and help you to get it ready for beta ?
>
> Also can you can release the modifications under 2 licences - the Open Group
> one and LGPL one - so that the changes can be incorporated into Lesstif
> and then we can also have apps which rely on version 1.2 to be themed also.
NO! Please release under a {XFree86,BSD}-like license so it will be
possible to merge them to XFree86 when the Open Group chanceg his license
to more liberal terms. Note that LGPL is as restrictive as the OG's
license, only in the contrary direction. LGPL tries to dictate to people
which concept of "freedom" they should adopt, a very cruel kind of
violence.
Having lots of different motif implementations with complicated licensing
conflicts will lead us to the same stupid fagmentation that made linux
(for different reasons) a babel of incompatible distributions. If you want
to contribute to the preservation of Motif as solid standard then avoid
fragmentation.
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Carlos A. M. dos Santos
Federal University of Pelotas Meteorological Research Center
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