At 09:53 AM 10/4/2000 -0400, Rick Scott wrote:
> > ><snip>
> > >
> > >And talking about free software, OM fails to fullfill terms which
> > >at least a majority of involved people agree that are required for being
> > >"free", "opensourced", etc., i.e. many people can't use it _legally_.
> >
> > Is there more to this comment about "_legally_" other than the obvious one
> > that people which have chosen to use GPL for their open software can't use
> > Open Motif without violating the GPL? I understand that there is a clear
> > philosophical issue about using a license agreement that has not been
> > approved by opensouce.org.
> >
>
>It also means that I can't use OpenMotif on any of my comercial platforms for
>_anything_, no matter what license I may want to use. Some of those platforms
>do not even have a commercial offering of Motif.
>
(I know Rick knows this, but for others on the list).)
The OM Public license (unlike the QPL) does allow commercial use as long as
the platform is an "open sourced" operating system. So this excludes Sun,
HP, etc. (unless they are running Linux or FreeBSD). It also excludes OM
on the Cygwin layer on NT. This clause is a real problem. A more subtle
implication is that it also excludes OM enhancements from being rolled back
into "proprietary Motifs" unless the author explicitly dual licenses them.
This doesn't help unity...
Mark
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