%^&^$#@! Now we are into a license flame war. Go$&@*%#t.
Peter
Crossing his fingers.
>
> "Peter.vanHelden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What I personally like about the (L)GPL is that it seeks to assure the pu=
> blic
> 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 gener=
> ous
> work of others *without contributing back*. That's what I don't really li=
> ke.
>
> 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 th=
> is=3D
> > will
> > affect programmers acceptance to lesstif =3D
> > =
>
> > i thought if the open group change it's license terms why lesstif don=
> 't=3D
> > ?
> > i think it will be more scencible to release it under the standard X/MI=
> T
> > license ,this willmake it distributable with xfree86 and let the source=
>
> > maintained by larger number of developers and may that encourage the op=
> en=3D
> > =
>
> > 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 k=
> new
> that now you can distribute the standard M*tif 2.1.30 with your distro wi=
> thout
> any fee .... would you install the incomplete clone also ? and if you dec=
> ide
> 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 le=
> sstif
> and no chance for it to compete although it it pretty ,stable of clean de=
> sign
> and implementation but don't forget it is not complete (even when compare=
> d
> 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 commerc=
> ial
> app.) ,not multithread safe and much more
>
> my point that if the lesstif community successed to distribute it with Xf=
> ree86
> it will have a chance to remain and develop by lesstif team and xfree tea=
> m
>
> and about your point of commercial use without release the source.. ok yo=
> u
> 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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