Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Xwindow or NeWS on the amiga Keywords: Xwindow NeWS Message-ID: <56690@sun.uucp> Date: 15 Jun 88 20:44:41 GMT References: <9767@oberon.USC.EDU> <4450@gryphon.CTS.COM> <9815@oberon.USC.EDU> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 29 In article <9815@oberon.USC.EDU> (Marco Papa) writes: ->In article <4450@gryphon.CTS.COM> (Richard Sexton) writes: ->>I was under the impression that Sun would allow binary redistribution for ->>$100. -> ->Yes, once you are a source licensee, you can redistribute "binary NeWS" ->for a $100 fee for each copy sold. These were the conditions of the contract ->about a year ago. It is unclear what will be the new fees when the NeWS/X11 ->merge is completed and becomes part of ATT System V, rel. 4. At that point ->it would look that any ATT UNIX source licensee will get NeWS sources as ->part of ATT System V. -> ->Chuck, any comments from the 'Sun spots' :-) ->-- Marco Papa 'Doc' Well, what has been said is correct. Commercial source liscenses that include the right to redistribute (University liscenses don't) are $25,000. When redistributing the binaries a royalty goes to Sun (unless you choose the 'buy out' option that eliminates the need to pay royalties). How much in addition one wishes to charge is up to the people selling it of course. As for what happens after System V Release 4.0 comes out and all the source liscensees get source to the X/NeWS stuff I don't know. I assume that it means all X or NeWS clients will be able to talk to any System V machine but then again it is up to the System V licensee to do the port to their hardware. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.