-- Danny Backx ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Home page : http://users.skynet.be/danny.backx Projects: LessTif (http://www.lesstif.org) Oleo (http://www.gnu.org/software/oleo/oleo.html)
When you announced releasing Motif "to the open source community", many people were enthusiastic at first. However, it seesms you did not mean this in the sense that most people understood it: your license does not fit the definition of "open source" or the definition of "free software". People in the free software community now have your permission to use Motif, but only if they leave the community by using a non-free program. Under these circumstances, linking a GPL-covered program with Motif is still illegal, except on some non-free operating systems such as perhaps Solaris and HPUX which come with Motif. And I have to tell the public, "Please don't use Motif--please use LessTif instead, since that is free software." You could truly make Motif available for our community by releasing Motif as free software. I hope you will eventually do that. I think that if you release Motif under a dual license offering the choice of your present license and the GPL, that would serve your purpose and contribute to our community.
