On 4/7/2009 2:50 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > James Cornell wrote: > >>> Will there be a closed source binary release of Xsun (for Sparc)? >>> Will there be a closed source binary release of Motif (for Sparc and >>> X64)? >>> >>> >> To people with contracts, these encumbered bits will be available on the >> pkg.sun.com repository with a key based on service number and target >> host. Xsun will not be though to my knowledge due to integration and >> engineering overhead required to keep it working with the still moving >> target that is OpenSolaris. >> > > Motif is in the free & open repository. I don't know of anything discussed > here that will require a service contract - it's either free or dead. > > Don't you mean lesstif (LGPL) which is capable of replacing Motif in some cases? It's a possibility and more likely what you say is correct since Sun has been going that direction, but there is no public evidence saying it became free to distribute the object code (binaries, library).
See this for example with a subset of the Motif license requirements as an indicator of the current encumbrance that I feel still exists: http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/astaff/project/motif1.1/README.license The code and runtime is still being sold as far as I can tell by The Open Group: http://www.opengroup.org/desktop/ordering/motif.price.list.htm James -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090407/521d8014/attachment.html>
