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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Motif 1.1 shipping (please read this too)
Message-ID: <1990Sep2.154929.4599@alphalpha.com>
Date: 2 Sep 90 15:49:29 GMT
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In article <9009011809.AA08100@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters) writes:
>I challenge OSF to put their principles where their publicity is and
>release OSF/Motif under the GNU General Public License, either version 1
>or, at their option, a later version.  As the OSF has made substantial
>donations to the Free Software Foundation, I presume that they are in
>favour of free software.

Before we all get into some inane flame war on this, let me point out
that even if OSF desired to do this now, it is very likely that their
licensing agreement with the original providers of the base software
(HP and DEC) would not allow them to.  I don't know this for a fact,
but I think it quite likely.  Secondly, if they were to license it
they certainly wouldn't do so under the GNU license, since that would
prohibit software vendors from selling software that used Motif.
Something which I don't believe the OSF membership would consider
a positive development.
						-kee
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.