Free Software audit update

Peter Gordon peter at thecodergeek.com
Fri Aug 25 06:43:29 UTC 2006


Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote :
> 
>> To quote the opengroups motif faq (linked above) on this:
>> "Open Motif source code and binaries can be distributed royalty free
>> under The Open Group Public License as long as the operating system upon
>> which Open Motif is running meets the OSI's Open Source Definition"
> 
> Seems like someone running Fedora Core inside VMWare on Windows will be
> violating the openmotif license :-)

Not necessarily. The OpenMptif application would still be running on an
open source OS as defined by the OSI. It's just that that OS would not be
running on bare hardware. :)
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