Subject: Re: Motif released as open source
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Scott Bartram <sbartram@iconixx.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 05/16/2000 14:09:34
[My original subject line should have said "released *for* open source" not
"released *as* open source"]

From the Open Motif license:

"This license will allow the release of the Motif source code, as a product
called Open Motif, for use, reproduction and distribution on operating systems
that are themselves Open Source programs, such as Linux and FreeBSD, without
the payment of royalties. The license can be found at
http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license."

The bottom line is that you can download, compile, [modify and compile again],
and distribute binaries for NetBSD.

Seems like a good thing to me.

Peter Seebach wrote:
> 
> In message <39218A67.B873A2D@iconixx.com>, Scott Bartram writes:
> >http://www.opengroup.org/press/15may00.htm
> 
> No, released as "non-open-source with some source available for limited use".

Care to elaborate?