"Open Source" Motif

[David Johnson]

On Tue, 16 May 2000, John Cowan wrote:
> David Johnson wrote:
> 
> > Would the Open Group be willing to take a lateral step and restrict
> > the usage of OpenMotif to linkage with Open Source programs only? Their
> > cash cow would remain intact, but their software would be fully Open
> > Source, as well as Free Software.
> 
> But is this a good thing for users?  It certainly limits the ability of
> Motif-using commercial software to be ported to free OSes, which I take it
> is the purpose of the OML.  Free software developers have plenty of
> widget libraries already.

Not at all! I was referring to the QPL, with the Qt library is under.
There is nothing restricting one from selling proprietary-Qt based
software to users of free-Qt. It has happened before, and will happen
again. So long as the developer buys a license, the product can be used
with either version of Qt.

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David Johnson...
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