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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Motif anyone ?
Date: 10 Jan 1995 16:32:37 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <3epjdj$omi@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>,
Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com> wrote:
>
>Many thanks to those who replied informing me thst 
>Motif is a licensed package and the address of OSF/1
>etc. However in the "good ol days" Linux at least came
>with Motif and mwm (or was it just mwm statically linked)
>but in either case someone had the source for Motif somewhere.

Linux has *never* come with mwm installed unless someone pirated a copy
of it.  You may be thinking of fvwm `, a mwm look-alike.  Linux has the
exact same licensing restrictions as all of the other *nices in the
world, which means you must buy Motif to use it.


Nate
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