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From: jan@pandonia.canberra.edu.au (Jan Newmarch)
Subject: Re: tkWWW, tclX6.x
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Organization: Info Sci & Eng, University of Canberra, AUSTRALIA
References: <20c9fs$lu7@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Date:  2 Jul 93 05:41:09 GMT
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In <20c9fs$lu7@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes:



>Is there going to be a motif development environment available under 386bsd?
>I know, Motif requires licensing. Could a group put together money to buy 
>a Motif source license and make it available for 386bsd? I believe something
>like that has been done in the LINUX community.

I don't think so. A private organisation has compiled Motif and is
*selling* it. The licensing conditions of Motif being what they are, I
doubt if anyone could legally give it away. (BTW, compiling Motif for
Linux is pretty easy, and so should be for BSD too I guess.)
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