"Peter.vanHelden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I personally like about the (L)GPL is that it seeks to assure the public
availability of the source code licensed under it and it's direvatives.
The MIT/X license allows for is, for instance, some company taking the
sources, making closed source enhancements, and making money of the generous
work of others *without contributing back*. That's what I don't really like.
I don't get your point about a larger number of programmers. Some, might
even quit because of a license change.
Peter
> 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
>
>
Hi peter
thanks for your feedback
ok ,first of all i think no one get my point,
i am not concerning the license by itself but i concern the particular
situation of lesstif and how can it stand and remain in the dev world
think with me , if you are a maitainer of a linux distribution and you knew
that now you can distribute the standard M*tif 2.1.30 with your distro without
any fee .... would you install the incomplete clone also ? and if you decide
to do that for backward comptability for instance..
will you make it the standard Xmlib.a library of your distribution?
of course not,, yes face it linux distributors will soon replace lesstif
based Xm lib with the opengroup openmotif(tm) library and no place for lesstif
and no chance for it to compete although it it pretty ,stable of clean design
and implementation but don't forget it is not complete (even when compared
with ver 1.2) not standard ,with more restrictive license(as open group
license don't oblige you to distribute the object files with your commercial
app.) ,not multithread safe and much more
my point that if the lesstif community successed to distribute it with Xfree86
it will have a chance to remain and develop by lesstif team and xfree team
and about your point of commercial use without release the source.. ok you
have a point in general but in case of lesstif ,who can gain money from
incomplete,non standard work while the complete standard one is available for
free
thanks ,i hope you reply soon
joe
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