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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!think.com!paperboy.osf.org!osf.org!dbrooks From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) Subject: Re: Motif for 386BSD Message-ID: <1992Sep22.182032.5504@osf.org> Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System) Organization: Open Software Foundation References: <w01ngag.hasty@netcom.com> <1992Sep17.104804.21283@sunbim.be> <1992Sep17.172332.11327@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 18:20:32 GMT Lines: 42 terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: |> Sorry to disagree, but the distrubution of an application statically linked |> with a Motif library binds you to the license for the sources for Motif. |> The distribution of an application dynamically linked with a shared Motif |> library does not, but implicitly requires the shared Motif library be |> present on the system running the application (otherwise the dynamic link |> fails). My attention has just been drawn to this thread. This description is a little off the mark. What I am about to describe is the terms surrounding Motif 1.2; we don't license 1.1 any more. There are, broadly, two kinds of license from us: the Limited Distribution Right, and the Full Distribution Right (there are variants on the latter for large users). These have a license fee, of $2k and $15k respectively, and get you source. Second, there are royalties. These start at $40 and are payable to us when you ship binaries (libraries, shared or not, and/or mwm) onto a given system outside your company. Once anyone -- you or someone else -- has done this, the system has become "licensed". Shipping binaries outside can be done only by those who hold a FDR, or by their sublicensees. Those who hold a LDR can install binaries within their organization. Anyone with a legal binary (FDR, LDR, or the customer of a FDR) or can ship runtimes -- statically linked, complete programs, or programs that depend on pre-installed shared libraries -- without fee, but *only* to a system that was licensed in the previous paragraph. |> It may be possible (until OSF reads this and revamps their policies) to |> give away the shared libraries without charge, as well as the binaries to |> the window manager and other OSF-supplied sources. "Without charge" is |> the key work here, in that percentage royalties on $0 are still $0. The royalty has been $40 (going down to $10 in volume) since day 1. How much you charge your customers for them is up to you. -- David Brooks dbrooks@osf.org Open Software Foundation uunet!osf.org!dbrooks 121 more days of Bush Presidency!