On Mon, 22 May 2000, Alexander Mai wrote:
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> 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!
Perhaps not. The copyright holder of a software may change the licence
terms at his will. The problem I see here is that according to the
statement found in the source code, LessTif is
* Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
(in ArrowB.c)
You will have to convince RMS.
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