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MOTIF goes opensource for OpenSource Operating Systems
- To: "Cygwin-Xfree at Sourceware dot Cygnus. Com" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: MOTIF goes opensource for OpenSource Operating Systems
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:07:10 -0400
Open Group announced today that it is releasing MOTIF code for Open Source
Operating Systems
like Linux etc.
See http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif
Their FAQ explicitely restricts using MOTIF on Operating systems which are
open source.
I sent the following question to Open Group.
>Thanks for making MOTIF OpenSource for Open Source Operating Systems.
>
>I have a technical question here.
>
>What about Cygwin, which is GPL (i.e. Open Source), and makes UNIX
>applications run/port on Windows
>Operating System. However, without Cygwin the applications compiled
>with Cygwin cannot be executed on Windows. Cygwin
>(http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin) completely satisfy Open Source
>requirements.
>Can the OpenMOTIF be compiled using Cygwin on Windows and distributed?