In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Bishop wrote:
> > "The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to
> > enterprise integration, announced today that it is releasing the source
> > code of Motif, using a public license, to the Open Source community."
> >
> > Full details at http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif
>
> The license seems to make it quite useless.
> http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/
>
> "Free for use on Operating Systems that are themself Open Source"
> (note the blank), otherwise with something like a GPL virus,
Ops, sorry, I was mislead. They use the term "Program" for the Motif
library, not the application you link to. So it does not infect your
own code that uses this library, you just have to ship source for your
modifications to the Motif library.
Still, it is of course vastly incomatible to the GPL.
Martin
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