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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Motif anyone ? Date: 10 Jan 1995 16:32:37 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3eucr5$s9h@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <3efpo0$r15@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <3eh2n4$n0h@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <3ekejg$91n@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <3epjdj$omi@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <3epjdj$omi@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com> wrote: > >Many thanks to those who replied informing me thst >Motif is a licensed package and the address of OSF/1 >etc. However in the "good ol days" Linux at least came >with Motif and mwm (or was it just mwm statically linked) >but in either case someone had the source for Motif somewhere. Linux has *never* come with mwm installed unless someone pirated a copy of it. You may be thinking of fvwm `, a mwm look-alike. Linux has the exact same licensing restrictions as all of the other *nices in the world, which means you must buy Motif to use it. Nate -- nate@FreeBSD.org | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@schizo.coe.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-5980 | Got lots of offers for work, now I need to home #: (406) 586-0579 | decide which job to take. :)