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- From: terry@ithaca.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
- Subject: Re: Motif on X386???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.175520.5936@gateway.novell.com>
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- References: <1992Aug17.140857.3882@lgc.com> <1992Aug17.223909.14604@athena.mit.edu> <1992Aug18.104511.12373@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:55:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.104511.12373@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug17.223909.14604@athena.mit.edu> bri@pegasus.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom) writes:
- >>What is the deal with site licenses and motif. i know mit has a bin/lib/src
- >>license to cover everyone on campus. does this mean you can give it to me?
- >[...]
- >>what's the legal bit on this...
- >
- >I would also be interested in an answer to this question. Our university
- >computer center will not ever get a Motif license. [They can't even get a
- >BSD license even though they *have* an AT&T license -- bah!]
- >
- >Is there any chance of a binary distribution? I wouldn't mind paying a
- >reasonable amount for Motif binaries, but the licensing fees that were
- >recently mentioned in comp.windows.x.motif were outrageous.
-
- Binary distributions are allowed if your license allows it. The expectation
- is that you will charge for them, although there is no requirement to do
- so. There are several flavors of license:
-
- o Source license and site use of binaries
- o Source license and site use of full developement kit
- o Source license and distribution of binaries
- o Source license and distribution of full developement kit
-
- The major problem is the distribution of the libraries in binaries. This
- can be worked around with shared libraries, but these aren't supported on
- 386BSD (yet); so currently, there is no workaround.
-
- What you want is someone who paid for the most expensive license to give
- away compiled code, headers, and library files without charge. I would
- say this would qualify as a package, as opposed to something which might
- be reasonably expected to become part of a full source istribution (like
- OLIT/olwm). It also qualifies as a "product" in a lot of companies minds,
- so you may not be able to get someone to give this to you.
-
- I suggest sending the $1000.00 off to OSF if you need this for other than
- personal use reasons.
-
- For a similar toolkit, someone may wish to contact John Bradley (email at
- bradley@cis.upenn.edu), the author of 'xv'. He has explicitly disallowed
- a great deal of use of the toolkit, so this may not be suitable except
- for personal use.
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
-
- ---
- Disclaimer: Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of
- my present or previous employers.
-