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From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
Subject: Re: Mosaic 2.0 for FreeBSD?
Message-ID: <CGI1Ko.847@rex.uokhsc.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 20:43:36 GMT
Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu
References: <2c4eme$nt3@rs560.cl.msu.edu> <JKH.93Nov14154610@whisker.lotus.ie> <CGHq62.8F5@festival.ed.ac.uk>
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richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
>In article <JKH.93Nov14154610@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>> If thats the case, how does NCSA Distribute Mosaic?!
>>
>>In source form, from what I can see! :-)
>Nope, they distribute binaries too.
>Perhaps they use a version of Motif to which this restrictive licence
>does not apply?
I would think it would be OK since (except for the Sun version...)
the platforms for which they provide binaries come with Motif standard
(IBM, SGI, DEC, and HP).
It also sounds like this restriction is new (Motif 2.0). It must
be prudent for them since groups like Linux have been publishing
statically linked Motif binaries (you must run out of RAM fast). That
probably costs somebody a few licenses...
--
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen