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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
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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
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