(a.josey 14401) Re: Licensing concerns with Open Motif

[Howard Greenwell]

John, Thank you for your comments on the license. 

it is very much The Open Group's intention that this applies to the kernel
of the Operating System, we are not including any utilities in the
definition. While we are not at liberty to change the license, through
legal reasons, we will certainly endeavour to make this clear in the Q&A
associated with the release.

Howard.

At 02:02 PM 5/15/00 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>Please forward this to the correct team within the Open Group.
>
>The license-discuss at opensource.org mailing list has been discussing
>Open Motif. Several participants are concerned that the term "operating
>system" is not defined in the Open Motif license.
>
>If interpreted to mean "distribution", several Linux distributions, such
>as Red Hat, include software such as Sun StarOffice that is not Open Source.
>(Indeed, the well-known "zip" and "unzip" utilities, very widely used in
>the Unix/Linux/BSD world, are not technically Open Source either.)
>It would be unfortunate to say the least if Open Motif could not be
distributed
>with Red Hat Linux.
>
>We therefore suggest that you define "operating system" to refer only to
>the *kernel* of the operating system, without regard to any bundled
>utilities or application software.  That would include all known Linux
>and BSD distributions.
>
>Thank you.
>
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Howard.

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