Hello, Leandro!

>       Once Motif is now widely available to free OSs, but not free in
> itself, it wouldn't be an opportunity to switch Lesstif to GPL?  If someone
> wants proprietary, OpenMotif; it he wants free, GPL'd Lesstif *may* (I'm not
> absolutely sure) force some software free, just as readline with NcFTP or
> gcc with NeXT's ObjectiveC.

I don't think Lesstif can "force some software free" if that software
already works with Lesstif. They will just keep using the latest LGPL'd
version of Lesstif. It is to late - the current Lesstif is stable enough
for most uses.

Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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