"Open Source" Motif

[David Johnson]

On Mon, 15 May 2000, John Cowan wrote:
> "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote:
> 
> > TOG have released Motif under an "Open Source" license which isn't.
> 
> The two pages you mention never refer to Open Motif as an open-source
> program.  Rather, it is a proprietary program which may be freely distributed
> with operating systems which are themselves open-source.

Precisely so. And since Motif comes from the "Open Group", they have
every right to call it "Open Motif". They were using the term long
before Open Source as a term was invented.

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David Johnson...
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