Subject: Re: Netscape
To: Michael R Zucca <mrz5149@cs.rit.edu>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/22/1998 21:20:00
Michael R Zucca wrote:
> 
> > As someone already pointed out, Netscape requires Motif and we don't yet
> > have that yet...
> 
> Don't one of the ports, like the Sun port, have a full Motif? How do we
> have Mosaic without Motif and Lesstif a little too broken?

No port ships with Motif.  I believe that anyone could get the sources and
libraries if they were willing to pay enough for a license.

The way that Mosaic 2.7b3 runs is that it's statically linked against the
Motif libraries (I have no idea who contributed it).  Later versions that
are floating around require Lesstif, and thus they don't work quite as
well.
 
> We could also have somebody compile Netscape under SunOS with Motif
> and that would work as well (SunOS compatibility to the rescue!).

It kinda depends on the Motif license.  I don't think that all licenses
allow redistribution, but I could be wrong.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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