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From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xview vs. Motif speculation; Re: Free Motif
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Date: 12 Apr 90 14:18:50 GMT
References: <90Apr12.013507edt.3571@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> <9004100445.AA25496@antares.aero.org>
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In article <9004100445.AA25496@antares.aero.org>,
strauss@AEROSPACE.AERO.ORG writes:
> 
> Motif is not free. The members of the Open Software Foundation sell it
> as a product.

In article <90Apr12.013507edt.3571@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>,
moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes:
>
> I quite understand that OSF has to charge money for their source
> licenses.  Membership has its privileges.  If not, what would be the
> point of being a member.

It must be time to say this again:

Being a member is not a prerequisite of licensing OSF/Motif source.
From its first release in August 1989, it was available on equal terms
to members and non-members alike.  The number of non-member licensees
(which includes some interesting names :-) far outweighs the number of
members.  And many of the licensees won't be selling it as a (binary)
product, but are using it internally.

Membership does have its privileges, but that's not one of them.
-- 
David Brooks				dbrooks@osf.org
Open Software Foundation		uunet!osf.org!dbrooks