[75] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Motif Licensing questions.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris VanHaren)
Wed Jul 7 17:30:22 1993
To: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o)
Cc: yandros@athena.mit.edu, linux-dev@athena.mit.edu, alexp@athena.mit.edu
From: Chris VanHaren <vanharen@gza.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jul 1993 00:49:56 EDT."
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1993 17:30:15 -0400
> What is important
> is whether we can distribute shared libraries *only* to the MIT
> community.
As I understand it (and I'm sure Alex will correct me if I'm wrong) is
that you are allowed to distribute Motif libraries/binaries/sources
within MIT. In essence, we do that already, with the libraries being
readable (so that people can link with them). We make the sources
available to whomever asks if they first read and understand the
licensing terms.
SWA (Software Acquisition) was in charge of distributing sources around
MIT other than I.S., because they charged other groups/labs/whatever a
small fee in order to help defray the licensing cost. I don't know
whether this is still the plan or not, and I imagine that they didn't
intend to charge students for use of libraries, etc.
Alex? Care to comment?
I should say that I only ever saw the actual license once, and I
definitely do not speak lawyer-ese, so the above impressions are mine
alone...
-C.
