Re: about motif and dhcp under linux
>>>> "S" == Stephen Chadfield
<stephen_chadfield(a)mitel.com> writes:
S> Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> it is not really free. the license does not meet the open source
> definition or get rms' approval. i'm not sure gpl software is allowed to
> link to it. i haven't heard of any linux distributions distributing motif.
> personally, i would go with lesstif.
S> Only if you are committed to keeping your system "RMS approved". I had
S> no qualms about buying and running commercial software under Linux
S> including Motif distributions. I see no reason not to use OpenMotif.
Well, even XEmacs is not RMS approved in the strictest sense.
S> While there is a lot of good software released under the GPL I could not
S> cope with being retsicted to running only free software.
Although XEmacs is free software, XEmacs interacts with many other
pieces of software, and is agnostic about whether those other pieces
are free or not. So XEmacs has always had support for Motif. But
Motif is of course not required.
Martin