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From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: Motif window manager client for VMS
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Date: 26 Feb 91 19:21:48 GMT
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taylort@decus.com.au (Trevor Taylor) writes:
|> I would like to hear some comment from OSF on this. The mwm that
|> DEC sells most certainly came from OSF sources. There is a royalty
|> due for the toolkit, and mwm definitely uses the toolkit. However,
|> my understanding is that application developers do not have to
|> pay any royalty so long as they do not distribute the toolkit.
|> So is mwm a DEC application or does it belong to OSF???

Under the terms of the license, shipping mwm requires a binary royalty
payment, if it is derived from our sources.
-- 
David Brooks				dbrooks@osf.org
Systems Engineering, OSF		uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
"It's not easy, but it is simple."