From: wolf@sol.cs.uni-sb.de (Wolfgang Huwig) Subject: Re: Motif Date: 19 Feb 1993 21:07:22 GMT
In article <1993Feb19.034530.4023@kf8nh.wariat.org>bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org writes:
>In article <1993Feb18.172403.24996@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at> bernhard@donald.ani.univie.ac.at (Bernhard Strassl) writes:
>>Although it would be fine to get Motif for free (does anyone know if this
>>is realistic in the next years?), it is also possible to get Motif on the
>>'official' way without too much costs - if there are enough interrested people
>>in the Linux community (I think I would spend $1000 if the port works fine).
>
>I suspect there'll be a problem with the GNU copyleft with respect to linking
>with FSF sources (which is to say: most of Linux aside from the kernel),
>since you can't distribute source. Or have recent versions of the GPL changed
>this?
This leads me to a related topic:
is a binary-only distribution of copylefted programs permissible?
E.g. if I wanted to upload to an ftp server the binaries of a package
which compiled fine right out of the box (and there seem to be lots of
people who want just the binaries), is it enough to say: this is XYZ
compiled for linux; you can get the sources there and there?
Any comments welcome,
Wolfgang