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Re: Motif Licensing questions.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Haynes)
Wed Jul 7 18:53:12 1993
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 93 15:52:56 -0700
To: linux-dev@athena.mit.edu
(Pardon me for butting in from outside MIT)
Seems to me a problem here is what's going to happen when those machine
owners (whether they be x86 or Sparc or anything else) leave MIT and no
longer have the right to use the Motif (sources, libraries) under the MIT
site license. They won't have access to All of Athena anymore anyway; but
they will want to have their machines be functional for something. Does
MIT have a legal responsibility to see that they don't take a copy of Motif
with them on the sly? Would OSF countenance something like a $19.95
personal-user license to make it legal? Will OSF simply ignore the issue?
Would MIT be better off to abandon Motif are replace it with freely-
redistributable software components?
Ethics and legal restraints aside, all a person needs to do is buy a disk
big enough to hold /srvd and the contents of some favorite lockers and
he has a very functional off-the-net Athena workstation.
