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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ Draft 3
- To: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>,"cygx" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ Draft 3
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 21:28:41 +1000
- References: <NHEELHJHHFKPMAEAFMFCGEONCFAA.huntharo@msu.edu>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>; "cygx"
<cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 9:23 PM
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ Draft 3
> Robert,
>
> > It's wrong. The original FAQ is the definitive answer:
>
> What original FAQ?
>
> In the FAQ I wrote, "Cygwin/XFree86 may qualify as a platform that
Open
> Motif can be distributed with and used on, but work has yet to begin
on
> determining if that is the case."
Q 3.10. I realise it was a little brief though :]. Still, "Open Motif"
is not open source.
> I'm pretty sure that we'd actually have to contact The Open Group to
check
> which side of "Open Source" we fall on, as Cygwin has a kernel that is
> clearly Open Source, whereas the Windows kernel is not Open Source.
Which
> kernel are we to consider? The kernel that we depend upon, which
would be
> Cygwin? Or, the kernel that we can sometimes interact with, which
would be
> Widnows?
Which Suhaib has done in the past - see his email w.r.t.
[Skip]
I wasn't referring to the Opengroups spin doctoring on [Open] Motif, but
thanks for giving me latitude there ;].
As far as being bush lawyers and making a case to the open group - thats
not faq related. The simple case is, that
a) Motif is not open source. (It doesn't meet the no-restriction
requirement for the OSI thingwhatsit).
b) Suhaib has been told directly that cygwin doesn't qualify.
I'd be happy if this changes, but from a FAQ point of view, we want to
answer questions...
Rob