Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Oct 2006 22:49 UTC, submitted by Peter Howkins
In an attempt to convince The Open Group that they finally want to fully Open Source Motif and CDE Peter Howkins has started a petition to help gauge how much interest there is. CDE, the Common Desktop Enviroment, was the default desktop on several commercial UNIX distributions. Motif is a X Windows widget
API used in many programs, including CDE
and other projects such as nedit and DDD. Howkins is not going to try to convince anyone to use either of them, but if you use them and would like to see them Open Sourced please sign the petition. For more background information about CDE and this petition visit the petition site or go straight to signing the petition.
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Member since:2006-03-12
No, not everyone who supports the BSD licence is trying to make a proprietary derivative - last I checked the exact opposite was OpenBSD's OpenSSH, a BSD licensed SSH to compete with the SSH.com version.
Many BSD supporters morally object to the GPL, you really should read about the arguments on both sides before declaring something like that.
Also, if Trolltech ever dies as you say, QT becomes BSD licensed, you should read up on that too.
Edited 2006-10-13 00:00
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Qt is GPL. Once Trolltech dies or tries to close Qt, the community will simply continue the development of the latest GPL version.
Wasn't Motif called "the self-abuse toolkit" somewhere (Unix-Haters' Handbook, I believe)? I've never used it in any applications, but Qt is almost too good to be true ("almost" because of those ugly non-standard extensions to the C++ language).
Besides, the only ones who grumble about KDE/GNOME being GPL are those interested in developing proprietary software; those are well-served by Trolltech's commercial Qt license as well.