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From: thp@westhawk.UUCP ("Timothy H Panton.")
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Date: 29 Nov 90 14:56:38 GMT
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To: nazgul%alphalpha.com%ukc.ac.uk@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Re:  Sun's Free Software
Cc: thp@westhawk, xpert%lcs.mit.edu%ukc.ac.uk@cl.cam.ac.uk

About Sun's OpenWindows Source announcement
Kee Hinckley <nazgul@alphalpha.com> writes:

> My reading of this was that there is no way in hell that I, or almost
> anyone else on the net, can license this free software without
> spending a very large amount of money

AT+T ( now USL) and Sun agreed to "cross-licence" their X source code, 
so paying $1000 to USL gets you a source licence for all the components of
the OW2 source kit that aren't already freeware.

That is the situation as I understand it. 
Oh, USL admit that it isn't free, another bonus!

Tim.