On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Raul Miller wrote:

> Kevin Forge <forgeltd@JAMWEB.NET> wrote:
> > > > Motif on Solaris is distributed EXACTLY as QT on S.u.S.E .
> 
> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> > > There are *no* GPLed applications which are linked with Motif which are
> > > shipped with Motif. There are GPLed applications which are linked with
> > > Qt which are shipped with Qt.
> 
> Roberto Alsina <ralsina@unl.edu.ar> wrote:
> > Are you assuring us that there's no GPL'd application linked to Motif 
> > shipped with any OS?
> 
> Well, I understand that there are none shipped with Solaris.  I have
> no idea how many operating systems ship Motif with a major component,
> and while I believe that most businesses don't ship Motif with GPLed
> apps, I wouldn't put it past an outfit which ships executables which
> combine GPL and Qt to also ship executables which combine GPL and
> Motif.

So, no, you are not. Nice to know.

> 
> Debian used to ship Motif linked with GPL, I believe [but stopped
> when they realized what was up].
> 
> -- 
> Raul
> 
> 

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