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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!olivea!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!oils!jenkinsj From: jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com (Jon Jenkins) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Motif anyone ? Date: 12 Jan 1995 20:37:50 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 45 Message-ID: <3f43uu$c79@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> References: <3efpo0$r15@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <3eg317$q1g@agate.berkeley.edu> <3eh2n4$n0h@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <3ekejg$91n@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <3epjdj$omi@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: oils.ozy.dec.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2(HT3)] Jon Jenkins (jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com) wrote: : Jon Jenkins (jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com) wrote: : : Jon Jenkins (jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com) wrote: : : : Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote: : : : : In article <3efpo0$r15@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, : : : : Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com> wrote: : : : : > : : : Thanks Jordan, I have contacted them and got the info but at $270 : : : it will have to wait a while. : : Just out of interest anyone know where the sources for : : Motif 1.1 or 1.2 are archived ?? : : I might just have a go at compiling the static libs !! : 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. After this post I received a lot of mail telling me that I must be "losing it" as Linux has never come with Motif and mwm. I received the following mail today (phew I thought it was time to have the Altzheimer's test). ------------------------------------------------- Jon, There was a short period of time when, in a fit of sanity, OSF agreed to allow the shared libraries and mwm to be shipped with Linux. That was at around 0.70 time or there abouts. This allowed binaries to be executed but not developed. For development you still need(ed) to buy a license. The source has never been made freely available which is one of the reasons Linux developers decided not to use it anymore. This also coincided with the devolution of OSF as a separate and distinct entity. There are numerous OSF source licensees (including my company and yours) which paid large bucks to become members. You can probably do better looking for the source within DEC. Best, dave ---------------------------------------------