RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ Draft 3

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

A year ago I forwarded an email from Open Group to the list.  The following
section is
Wrong as Rob pointed.  

2.7. What license applies to Motif?

Motif is a closed source product produced by The Open Group. However, The
Open Group released Open Motif on 2000-05-15 under a public license, The
Open Group Public License, that allows Open Motif to be distributed with and
used on Open Source platforms. 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. Furthermore, no work has been done, as of
2001-05-24, to build Open Motif with Cygwin/XFree86.


Also according to my communication with Open Group, after OpenMOTIF, was
released, Cygwin does not qualify.  I was told by OpenGroup attempts to
compile OpenMOTIf on Cygwin will require a commercial royalty based license.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 3:41 AM
> To: Harold Hunt; cygx
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ Draft 3
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu>
> To: "cygx" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 5:35 PM
> Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ Draft 3
> 
> 
> > Changes
> > 1) Added a section on Licenses, Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
> with
> > answers to 8 questions: 
> > 
> http://www.msu.edu/> ~huntharo/xwin/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#AEN92
> > 2) Notice the part in the above section about Open Motif, 
> it is kind 
> > of interesting, and news to me :)
> 
> I'm not onto content yet... but I had a quick look to see the 
> comment on Motif.
> 
> It's wrong. The original FAQ is the definitive answer:
> ===
> The rights granted under this license are limited solely to 
> distribution and sublicensing of the Contribution(s) on, 
> with, or for operating systems which are themselves Open 
> Source programs. Contact The Open Group for a license 
> allowing distribution and sublicensing of the Original 
> Program on, with, or for operating systems which are not Open 
> Source programs. === Windows NT/9x/ME 2000 are not open 
> source programs. Thus there is no permission from the open 
> group for Motif.
> 
> Rob
>