Re: GPL vs. Motif (was: MaintainerDatabase Copyright)
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 07:51:04PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > The latest (5.0 Beta) version of nedit works (almost) perfectly with the
> > latest version of lesstif. I have discussed the Debian Free Software
> > Guidelines with the author, and I talked him into changing the license to
> > be DFSG compliant (Wahoo!!!). Now he has to convince the Fermi National
> > Accelerator Laboratory Technology Transfer Office to go along with the
> > change. I don't plan on pulling out my old commercial Motif CD and making
> > any more statically linked versions so there will soon be just one version
> > of nedit. With luck it will go back into the main distribution as
> > completely free software.
>
> Erik, I just announced a new LessTif on #debian, and was asked to test nedit
> with it. I did a quick compile, and it seemed to work great. Could you
> please make a libc6 version of 5.0 for hamm/non-free? (or is there any news
> on the license front?).
>
> Greetings,
> Ray
I saw the announcement this morning, and I was planning on trying the new
libraries tonight. I havn't uploaded a new version of Nedit, since every
time I have compiled it against the available version of lesstif, it
was far was too buggy to use. Hopefully, this will fix the problems...
I will recompile the package tonight and see.
On the Licensing front, no real progress. I've only managed to get
them to make an _extremely minor_ change to their license that does not
significantly enhance their DFSG compilance. Too bad. Nedit 5.0 will
still need to go into non-free. :-( It is unfortunate, because the
author seems to go along with us, but I guess their legal dept still needs
some convincing. Perhaps if we arrange a massive campain to ask for DFSG
compliance, we can get better results. Their license is so close to being
free, I am certain they can be convinced.
-Erik
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