Subject: Re: Motif released as open source
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org>
From: Brian Waters <jbw@bbin.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 06/14/2000 16:00:19
In article <871z32w0dg.fsf@snark.piermont.com> you write:
>
>Scott Bartram <sbartram@iconixx.com> writes:
>> http://www.opengroup.org/press/15may00.htm
>
>The license does not meet the OSD by any stretch of the
>imagination. We can't steal the code to use it for other things, which
>in my opinion makes me unwilling to hack on it.
>
>We've got lesstif already anyway, and it is good enough for most motif
>apps I care to use.

But lesstif is LGLPed which means we can't use the code in other BSDish
licenced things anyway.