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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!ub4b!sunbim!usenet From: db@sunbim.be (Danny Backx) Subject: Re: Motif for 386BSD Message-ID: <1992Sep17.104804.21283@sunbim.be> Sender: usenet@sunbim.be (user news) Reply-To: db@sunbim.be Organization: Sun Microsystems References: <w01ngag.hasty@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 92 10:48:04 GMT Lines: 29 In article hasty@netcom.com, hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: [...] >>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. Actually, the truth is more like the opposite. If you don't have shared libraries, then but you have Motif on your system (and you've paid for that), then linking a Motif application (statically of course) and giving that away or selling it is NOT something OSF wants money for. They do want money from you if you redistribute the libraries or the window manager. --- Danny Backx System Engineer E-Mail: db@sunbim.be (or uunet!mcsun!ub4b!sunbim!db) Telephone: +32(2)759.59.25 Fax : +32(2)759.47.95 Postal Mail : Danny Backx BIM Kwikstraat 4 3078 Everberg Belgium