Re: Proposal: Motif Widget set
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:34:06AM -0500, gk4@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
>
> Now that the Open Group has announced "Open Motif", I believe it now meets
> the requirements that was outlined for it to be included in the written
> specification.
>
> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/lsb-spec-9911/msg00008.html
>
> + there is a stable open standard (best if the standard is available for
> free or on the web)
> + there is an open source(1) implementation (LGPL okay, GPL not. Qt 2.0
> probably okay, Qt 1.0 not.)
Open Motif *is not* open source software:
>From the FAQ, as cited in lsb-discussion:
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QUESTION:
Does the Open Group Public License for Motif meet the Open Source
Guidelines?
ANSWER:
No. The Open Group Public License for Motif grants rights only to use
the software on or with operating systems that are themselves Open
Source programs. In restricting the applicability of the license to
Open Source platforms this does not meet term 8 of the Open Software
Definition (http://www.opensource.org/osd.html).
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On the other hand, given that Open Motif is licensed as free software for Linux,
and this is the *Linux* Standards Base, your proposal might have sense.
Personally, I would rather push gtk+ and Qt, but I do understand that
there is a great deal of software based on Motif.
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