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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Motif for 386BSD Message-ID: <w01ngag.hasty@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 92 02:46:39 GMT Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <7261@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> <1992Sep16.172102.21219@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Keywords: Motif 386BSD Lines: 47 In article <1992Sep16.172102.21219@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >In article <7261@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> erich@hri.com (Eric Hilfer) writes: >>Has anyone used Motif on 386BSD? >>If you have, did you buy the Motif sources and build it, or are 386-486 >>baniaries of the server and the libraries generic enough to run on any >>Intel hardware running Unix? I would like to avoid paying $2,000 to OSF >>to get the Motif source and build it myself. If nobody has done this, would >>anyone be interested in splitting the cost somehow, or working on the port and >>then selling the binaries? > >I have compiled licensed OSF sources for Motif and run them on 386BSD. The >problem is in the distribution licensing and what *that* costs from OSF >-- it isn't pretty. In particular, the costs to be allowed to distribute >libraries and header files and examples and binaries are pretty expensive. >Add to that the fact that we don't have shared libraries working quite yet, >and that means OSF code is required for each Motif-linked binary -- which >then also requires a license. We would all end up with OSF distribution >licenses if we followed this down the path far enough, and pay $ for them. > >There are two soloutions: > >1. Either an individual, company, or group of individuals under a legal >fiction (organization/consortium/etc.) licenses the code and the right to >redistribute for the full cost, and then builds and gives away or sells >the resulting software. > >2. Or we use something that can mimic Motif reasonably well, whether >we write it ourselves, simply use gwm, or maybe get John Bradley's toolkit >that he used in "xv" and roll our own... this currently has majorly >restrictive licensing and distribution policies, unfortunately. > Would xview be acceptable? Amancio Hasty > Terry Lambert > terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com > terry@icarus.weber.edu >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "I have an 8 user poetic license" - me > Get the 386bsd FAQ from agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------