James Cornell wrote: > On 4/7/2009 2:50 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> James Cornell wrote: >> >>>> Will there be a closed source binary release of Motif (for Sparc and >>>> X64)? >> >> 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).
No, I mean the SUNWmfrun packages from Nevada, containing Motif 2.1 for Solaris. They are binary only, not source code, but they are free to download and use. Sun has long had a license from the Open Group allowing us to distribute Motif binaries for our OS, and is a co-owner of the Motif copyrights due to our participation in the CDE/Motif development consortium. http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/info/0/SUNWmfrun%400.5.11%2C5.11-0.110%3A20090320T182737Z > 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 That reflects MIT's license with the Open Group, which is presumably an end-user sort of license, instead of a system distributor sort of license, and has no bearings on Sun's 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 The Open Group has also made the source freely available, though under a restricted, not-fully-open-source license: http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/ http://www.openmotif.org/ That is however, also not what Sun has made available (SUNWmfrun contains Motif 2.1, not the 2.3 release that OpenMotif has made). -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
