Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" To: "Mladshij Diriger" , Subject: RE: open motif for cygwin Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 15:50:36 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 In-Reply-To: <2192882.959789387896.JavaMail.imail@spike.excite.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Mladshij Diriger [mailto:nikolaich AT excite DOT com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 12:10 PM > To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > Subject: open motif for cygwin > > > has anybody successfully compiled open motif > on cygwin? > Thanks > > -- > Nicolas > > > You should NOT DO THAT. The same day when MOTIF code was released by Open Group (OG), I sent them a message on this question. I was interested on porting to Cygwin for Cygwin/XFree project. OG, Chief Business Executive, wrote me, OpenMOTIF is not free for any OS which is not open source. Since Cygwin runs on Windows and Windows is not Open Source therefore using OpenMOTIF on Windows, regardless of technology, like Cygwin, you use, would be a violation of OpenMOTIF license. To use OPenMOTIF and compile using Cygwin, according to him require a royalty based license, because Windows is OS in this case. I am mentioning what OG wrote me. I did forward a copy of his message to XFree86 developers and LessTif mailing list because similar questions were asked their. So if you do not like to get into legal license troubles with OG, MOTIF use with Cygwin is out of question as OpenGroup wrote me. Regards Suhaib > > > _______________________________________________________ > Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite > Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com