Previously Alan Cox wrote: > Do we care ? No. > What is the Debian position on whether Open Motif is open source ? Definitely non-free. Even TOG (or should that be The Not So Open Group? :) admits that in their FAQ. > Finally the License itself is not valid in more enlightened parts of the world > where > > No party to this Agreement will bring a legal action under this > Agreement more than one year after the cause of action arose. Each > party waives its rights to a jury trial in any resulting litigation. > > is not permitted. It's also silly. > > + there is an open source test suite > > + the Linux community was behind the toolkit > > It isnt I think behind the toolkit. The only applications that I can think of that use it are ddd, plan and nedit. None of my systems even seem to have lesstif or motif installed, so I guess that it's not very popular at all. What does `being behing a toolkit' mean anyway? > Having said that I dont think this one > is neccessary. Motif is something a lot of ISV's need and isnt intrusive. Its > something everyone uses as part of netscape. And netscape is switching to gtk as well as we can see in mozilla. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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