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From: cflatter@zia.aoc.nrao.EDU (Chris Flatters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: choice of toolkits
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Date: 14 Mar 91 16:31:21 GMT
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der Mouse writes (on donating Motif to GNU):
> I think this would be a bad move on their part.  Once they do this, it
> will be more or less permanently infected with the GPV.  The OSF will
> then be unable to even ship it with their systems, never mind sell it.
> Donating it to the X Consortium strikes me as a much better move, if
> they really want to make it generally available.

Donating to the X consortium is a good alternative.  BTW: the part of the
GPL that most vendors find objectionable (the bit that involves software
written using GNU libraries) has been removed from version 2.

		Chris Flatters