Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!agate!jym From: jym@eris.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Avoid Supplanting Free Software Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 90 22:13:57 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Distribution: comp Organization: Berserkeley Lines: 29 .-. |T|he attached was sent to another newsgroup/mailing list. I `-' figured I'd send it along here so that folks working on Motif would consider it. Flames cheerfully ignored. <_Jym_> From: ai.mit.edu!rms@apple.UUCP Date: Tue, 26 Jun 90 22:21:16 EDT To: info-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Subject: Emacs with menus and buttons If you are interested in working on x-related features, please plan on using only the free X facilities, and not proprietary software such as Motif. X is an important piece of free software, so we (the FSF) can feel only alarm when attempts are made to supplant parts of it with proprietary software. In effect, there is a danger that parts of X will cease to be free. While the free toolkits and window managers would still exist, that would not count for much if they could not make actual X applications work. We have to do as much as we can to keep the free X code alive. For this reason, we aren't going to maintain or install any support for the proprietary toolkits or window managers. Of course, the terms of the GPL say you can program support for any toolkits or window managers you like. But I hope you will help us keep X free by using and supporting the free facilities.