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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Public Domain Widget Library
Message-ID: <1682@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 00:42:33 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., Atlanta, GA
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I. Widget Submission Requirements

Regarding the widget library requirements for submission,
along with a Makefile, an Imakefile is requested.


II. Clarification of Purpose

Also, to clarify things, this library will contain things that
are NOT being sold for profit, and that are NOT available on
the MIT distribution tapes. In other words, this library will
NOT contain DECwindows source, nor will it contain the basic
Athena widget set, the new HP widgets, Sony widgets, etc.

Also, I am certainly open to toolkits other than the X Toolkit
provided by MIT. This also implies that:

1) if you supply widgets based on a toolkit other than the
   X Toolkit, you must identify that toolkit, and

2) that toolkit should be in the public domain.

I will, in fact, be glad to maintain toolkit libraries as well
as widget libraries.

I suspect that DEC and others will have users groups or something
to do this for their widget sets. If this is not so, and there is
demand for it, I will consider keeping widgets based on such proprietary
toolkits, provided that nothing in the source violates any license
agreements, etc. the widgets' authors/firms may have with the toolkit
providers.

-Miles