On Mon, 22 May 2000 16:27:07 +0200 (MET DST), Peter.vanHelden wrote:
>
>Please, let us refrain from having a license flame war :) That's why I
>explained my position in a personal email to the author.
>
>Having said that, I like it the way it is.
>
>
>Peter
Not sure what you've said, but some statements are of "public interest".
Ok, let's omit the discussion about everyone's favourites.
>>
>> hi everybody
>> i am a user and programmer of motif and lesstif (because i use LINUX &
>> FreeBSD)and recently i read about the openmotif and i don't know how this=
>> will affect programmers acceptance to lesstif =
>>
>> i thought if the open group change it's license terms why lesstif don't=
>> ?
>> i think it will be more scencible to release it under the standard X/MIT
>> license ,this willmake it distributable with xfree86 and let the source
>> maintained by larger number of developers and may that encourage the open=
>> group to release its source with a real opensource license and then the
>> mission of lesstif to make motif available to every one freely will be
>> completely fullfilled
>> looking forward for feedback (to my e-mail as i anm mot in the list)
>> thanh you
>> joe
The following should be a rather neutral coverage of some major issues.
I tried to hide my antipathy against (L)GPL ...
1) Though many people dislike (L)GPL I doubt a change of the license
will bring up many new contributors. One should even consider
that others won't contribute to a non (L)GPL one.
Only possible group which might be interested would be commercial
developers, same as XFree86 gets contributions from companies.
Not sure how likely this would be now.
2) Distribution with XFree86. Hmm, I confess I never thought about this ...
Yes, interesting idea. Easily doable in terms of portability.
Problems with "infrastructure", also I'm not sure adding "thousands"
of add-ons to XFree86 is a good idea, but for good reasons M*tif/LessTif
would be a worthwhile exception.
Drawback is that release and and development style don't match,
LessTif is more often updated, etc.
3) Changing the license is a difficult thing.
I think you have to persuade _all_ contributors from past up to now!
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