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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Motif for 386BSD
Message-ID: <1992Sep16.172102.21219@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Keywords: Motif 386BSD
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Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 17:21:02 GMT
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In article <7261@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> erich@hri.com (Eric Hilfer) writes:
>Has anyone used Motif on 386BSD?
>If you have, did you buy the Motif sources and build it, or are 386-486
>baniaries of the server and the libraries generic enough to run on any
>Intel hardware running Unix? I would like to avoid paying $2,000 to OSF
>to get the Motif source and build it myself. If nobody has done this, would
>anyone be interested in splitting the cost somehow, or working on the port and
>then selling the binaries?
I have compiled licensed OSF sources for Motif and run them on 386BSD. The
problem is in the distribution licensing and what *that* costs from OSF
-- it isn't pretty. In particular, the costs to be allowed to distribute
libraries and header files and examples and binaries are pretty expensive.
Add to that the fact that we don't have shared libraries working quite yet,
and that means OSF code is required for each Motif-linked binary -- which
then also requires a license. We would all end up with OSF distribution
licenses if we followed this down the path far enough, and pay $ for them.
There are two soloutions:
1. Either an individual, company, or group of individuals under a legal
fiction (organization/consortium/etc.) licenses the code and the right to
redistribute for the full cost, and then builds and gives away or sells
the resulting software.
2. Or we use something that can mimic Motif reasonably well, whether
we write it ourselves, simply use gwm, or maybe get John Bradley's toolkit
that he used in "xv" and roll our own... this currently has majorly
restrictive licensing and distribution policies, unfortunately.
Terry Lambert
terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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