At 10:38 AM 5/18/2000 -0500, Jon A. Christopher wrote:
>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.
Thank you! Quite frankly, I don't want to be put on the spot on which OSI
approved license we would release our software under. I need to so some
reading and get a better understanding of the options and their implications.
It is also true, that we may not always have a choice here. For example, we
are using part of GTK+/Gnome to parse the themes (this module sits outside
of Motif and so is not required to be under the TOG Public License). We
have suggested an API (and maybe code?) to the GTK+ team to extract the
themes info we need without having to reuse their code, but it will be up
to them whether they include/not include the API. (We think it is needed
for a themes editor anyway...)
And we are also in the process of setting up a CVS tree. MotifZone is built
on Source Forge's software, so we have all the tools we need, but only one
webmaster! (the cloning process failed...)
Mark
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