Re: gEDA-user: PCB suggestion

[Stephen Williams <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Magnus Danielson wrote:
> From: "Bert Douglas" <bertd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: PCB suggestion
> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:27:38 -0600
> Message-ID: <006a01c4f90f$132e3ec0$5e02a8c0@mars>
>
> > From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > > > Motif is, as well as Xaw, X11 Toolkit based, but as a comercial 
> > > > product lots of people prefer something free.
> > >
> > >   Lesstif.
> >
> > Motif is now open.
> > http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/
>
>
> Semi-open. The licence does not fully comply with OSI requirements. See the
> Openmotif FAQ which is very clear on this point.
>
> This can be a showstopper for some distributions. In particular, it is not open
> on Windows and OSX platforms.

... or Solaris or HP/UX. It's only open on open-source operating
systems. Or that is how I read it. I would say that's pretty fatal.
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