On Thu, 18 May 2000, Carlos A M dos Santos wrote:
> 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.
How 'bout let's not engage in a license war here, please? We probably all
have our preference, but we can probably agree that it'd be best if ICS
releases their patches under an OpenSource license, rather than the Open
Motif one. If the OM license allows this, the best thing for ICS and us
would probably be for ICS to release their binaries built with thier
enhancements under the OM license, and then release the patches (which
they own) under an Open Source license. The patches would then be
something akin to what the LAME project did with the copyrighted but
available sample mp3 encoder available from the Fraunhofer Institute.
Cheers,
Jon
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