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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Some Very Basic Questions
Message-ID: <1991May24.203747.12363@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 24 May 91 20:37:47 GMT
References: <1991May15.174459.16463@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <29086@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Sender: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems, San Jose, CA
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In article <29086@hydra.gatech.EDU>, ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
|> In article <1991May15.174459.16463@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rwm2d@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Bob McCall - RIP SRV) writes:
|> >6.  What is open-look?
|> 
|> Sun's equivalent to Motif.  Several implimentations.  Reasonable PD
|> implimentation availible, unlike Motif.

Not PD.  Public Domain means that the copyright owner has given away
all rights.  It XView was public domain, I could take it, put my name
on it, and sell it without giving a cent to Sun, and they would have no
legal recourse.

As I understand it, I am allowed to obtain XView and build it on my
system, but I am not allowed to sell it or bundle it with any
products.  I also believe that if I want to do so, it will cost as
much as Motif does.

In other words, it's free to end users, but not public domain.

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