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From: scott@cfi.com (Scott Boyd)
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Subject: Re: HP widgets.
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Date: 5 Jun 89 21:57:13 GMT
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In article <257@goya.dit.upm.es> you write:
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>
>We have worked with H-P workstations using hp widgets (Manual Port Number
>5959-6155 (6th July 1988).
>At this moment we want to transfer the application to another hardware.
>We have got hp widgets sources by the MIT Release III cartridge (version
> 9 August 1988) and have observed these problems:
>	-. There is not XwPulldown Widget.
>	-. There is not Shadow in Widgets.
>
> *** We would like the sources of the hp widgets that we had used before
> *** We would lide to know the reasons of these changes with restrictions.
> *** We would like to know if there are more restrictions.
>					thanks for all. 

The sources to the widget set with shadowing is not part of MIT Release 3
set. HP Legal decided to keep the "3-D" aspects of the HP widget set
proprietary.  You might be able to license the source from
HP directly -- talk with them.

The XwPulldown widget uses an Apple Patent that HP licensed specifically. HP
could not include this widget in the PD release without violating their 
license agreement with Apple. And they are already in enough trouble with
Apple :-)

There is a whole story around these decisions, but basically it comes down
to this.

HP product is not the same as PD MIT versions. There is no way to get the
delta to bring the MIT versions up to HP product specs without licensing
source from HP.

Good Luck.


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