Re: LibXm.so.2 ?

From: Hamish Moffatt (ptempn@ichl.ufjf.br)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2001 - 01:32:59 EEST

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    On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:47:26AM -0700, Jeff Dairiki wrote:
    > On Oct 4, 2001, Hamish Moffatt said:
    > > You have to buy Motif.
    > > So use LessTif.
    >
    > Not so. (It used to be so.) Motif has now been made freely
    > available for "open source" operating systems (like Linux).
    >
    > See http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/faq.html.
    >
    > Unless the application has been written explicitly for LessTif,
    > I find that OpenMotif generally works better....

    OK. However their license is still not free as defined by the
    open source definition (and Debian Free Software Guidelines),
    because it is not free on non-free operating systems.

    Hamish 

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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <muya.iwoohj@eaglemap.com> <terhi.victor@logonet.com>
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