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Motif Licensing questions.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@athena.mit.edu)
Sat Jul 3 03:03:47 1993
From: yandros@athena.mit.edu
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 93 03:03:30 -0400
To: linux-dev@athena.mit.edu
This is the combination of a short dialog with Chris Vanharen and Alex
Prengle <alex@mit.edu>, who's taken over Chris' responsibilities
w.r.t. Motif licensing.
The first round of questions:
The basic idea is that only form of Motif we can distribute is what they
call a "Run Time Copy", which is a completely embedded form of Motif that
will only operate within a specific binary and is inseparable from it (i.e.
a static Motif binary). Specifically:
> o Can we distribute static motif binaries to programs that we wrote?
(say, olh)?
Yes
> How about shared binaries?
No
> o Can we distribute static/shared binaries to program we didn't
> write (say, mwm)?
No
> o Can we distribute static/shared motif libraries (libXm) that we've
> built from the MIT sources?
No
..and the second set:
[I asked]
What exactly is `MIT', w.r.t. MIT's site license? In particular,
there are two examples I have in mind:
o Students (including grad students) under ResNet (including ILG's on
non-MIT space, like Fenway).
o Students (including grad students) *not* under ResNet - i.e. people
with a clear link to MIT, but not related i.t.o. real estate, in
off-campus housing.
[Alex responded]
For Motif and in the context of student Athena use, it would be OK for
students under ResNet as well as students networked to Athena from
off-campus housing to use Motif. For this license, the physical
connection does not matter so much as the fact of having a valid
Athena account. Essentially, anyone with a valid Athena account can
use Motif under our current Motif license.
So, overall, the asnwers weren't quite as nice as we'd like (no giving
out MWM), but not too bad. We should figure out what all this cuts
from our `for the universe' distribution. Anything else besides mwm?
Chad
