Re: [opendx-dev] MOTIF goes OPEN SOURCE Woohooo :-)

[Mark Hatch <mhatch@ics.com>]

It was released under a modified IBM Public License. I'm told the primary 
difference was that the license was modified to only apply to "open systems".

ICS was part of the announcement, and so we were able to build Motif 
binaries for most of the Linux platforms (including PPC, Alpha, and Sparc). 
You can download them at:

http://www.motifzone.net/download/

We've 7 mirrors operational at this point, so I think we are the best shot 
at the moment.

Were also pressing a CD with the source, postscript docs, and all the Linux 
& FreeBSD ports (~500mb). That should be shipping by end of week.

Regards

Mark

At 10:09 AM 5/15/2000 -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:

>It is a great News for OpenDX and other GUI apps developers.  Starting today
>MOTIF goes
>OpenSource, at least for Linux and other GPL'ed OS, as the Press Release
>from OSF reads.
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>Suhaib
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>The Open Group Announces
>Public License for Motif
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>Menlo Park, CA - May 15th, 2000 - The Open GroupTM, a vendor and
>technology-neutral consortium dedicated to enterprise integration, announced
>today that it is releasing the source code of MotifR, using a public
>license, to the Open Source community.
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>"As the graphical user interface toolkit of choice on UNIXR systems, Motif
>is the most successful technology available today for heterogeneous
>platforms," said Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group. "We want
>to support the momentum of Open Source operating systems such as LinuxR and
>FreeBSD by developing an Open MotifR licence for use with Open Source
>operating systems."
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>This license will allow the release of the Motif source code, as a product
>called Open Motif, for use, reproduction and distribution on operating
>systems that are themselves Open Source programs, such as Linux and FreeBSD,
>without the payment of royalties. The license can be found at
>http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license.
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>Supporters of Open Motif initiative include: Imperial Software Technology
>(IST) (www.ist.co.uk), Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS) (www.ics.com), KL
>Group (www.klgroup.com), and Metro Link (www.metrolink.com).
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>"As the creators of X-DesignerR, the world's leading Motif GUI builder,
>we're delighted to have assisted The Open Group in preparing Open Motif for
>release," said Derek Lambert, CEO of Imperial Software Technology. "The
>advent of Open Motif extends the reach of standards-based, professional user
>interface technology to the new free operating system platforms which will
>materially assist in the acceptance of Linux and FreeBSD in the corporate
>networked application environment."
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>ICS, the company that The Open Group has employed for over two years to
>support the Motif source code licensees, will also be supporting Open Motif.
>Mark Hatch, Chief Operating Officer of ICS commented "Customers of our
>Builder Xcessory PRO product, the industry leading user interface
>development environment for UNIX and Linux systems, have been waiting for
>the open source community to embrace Motif before initiating their ports to
>Linux. Today's announcement of Open Motif is key to getting Linux out of the
>backroom and onto the desktop running the business critical applications of
>the enterprise. Without a doubt, this announcement means more success for
>Linux in the enterprise."
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>"The release of Open Motif is great news for Motif and Open Source
>communities," said Dennis MacNeil, product marketing manager for KL Group.
>"Open Motif is an enterprise-ready, industrial strength toolkit that will
>enable software developers to deliver powerful mission-critical applications
>to Open Source platforms like Linux and FreeBSD. The market leader in Motif
>widgets, KL Group has been committed to the advancement of Motif development
>for more than 10 years. In support of The Open Group initiative, we have
>produced one of the first versions of Open Motif to allow developers to
>access the source code. Open Motif will be freely available from The Open
>Group and KL Group's Web site."
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>"Motif has long been a useful, popular tool for developers. Since 1991,
>Metro Link has been porting, testing and producing packages for Motif. Metro
>Link was the first company to ship a commercial product on Linux, that being
>Motif. Metro Link Motif has been certified by one of the most popular
>database vendors as the most stable supported graphical interface
>available," said Morgan Von Essen, Metro Link CEO and President. "Now that
>version 2.1 is freely available on open source systems, Metro Link believes
>that even more developers will be attracted to the Motif environment with
>its reliability and portability. We are fully committed to standards-based
>open source development. This movement by The Open Group is a significant
>demonstration of the open source community's effort to establish universal
>standards for key software products."
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>Those wishing to distribute Open Motif are invited to become Supporters of
>the Open Motif initiative. They are required to provide a binary version of
>the Open Motif products for an Open Source operating system on the central
>web site being hosted by The Open Group.
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>The source of Open Motif is available now at
>http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif.
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>About Motif
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>Motif is the industry standard graphical user interface (GUI) available on
>more than 200 hardware and software platforms. It is the de facto graphical
>user interface on UNIX systems in heterogeneous networked computing
>environments. Motif is fully specified by the IEEE 1295 standard, providing
>application developers, system vendors, and end users with a stable, mature
>and reliable environment for application presentation on a wide range of
>platforms. Motif is also the base graphical user interface for the Common
>Desktop Environment (CDE) and a number of other desktops. The current
>release of Motif is 2.1.30. (For more information, visit
>http://www.opengroup.org/motif).
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>About Open Source
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>For more information on Open Source, including the Open Source Definition,
>visit the Open Source Initiative web site at
>http://www.opensource.org/osd.html.
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>About The X Window System
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>The X Window System, supporting Motif, provides the only common windowing
>environment bridging the heterogeneous platforms in today's enterprise
>computing. The X Window System is the most successful Open Source
>collaborative technology developed to date and is the de facto standard
>graphical engine for Linux and UNIX systems. The inherent independence of
>the X Window System from the operating system and hardware has made it
>widely available and deployed, in use on over 20 million desktops worldwide.
>The current release is X11R6.4. (For more information, visit www.x.org).
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>About The Open Group
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>The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium, is committed to
>delivering greater business efficiency by bringing together buyers and
>suppliers of information systems to lower the cost and risks associated with
>integrating new technology across the enterprise. The Open Group's mission
>is to deliver assurance of conformance to Open Standards through the testing
>and certification of suppliers' products. More information on the
>organization can be found at http://www.opengroup.org/
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>UNIX and Motif are registered trademarks of The Open Group in the US and
>other countries. The Open Group and the X Window System are trademarks of
>The Open Group. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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