[FYI] Motif finally opened under LGPL

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 14:38:29 UTC 2012


On 25 October 2012 14:43, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 03:20:01PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> > Are there any particular drawbacks to lesstif at this point?
>> It's been a few years I looked at this, but the lesstif implementation
>> was incomlete/buggy and some apps didn't run properly with lesstif but
>> did with openmotif.
>
> I wouldn't be too surprised if it's the other way around by now.
>

It's not. Motif apps tend to be legacy ones, so incompatibilities are
a disadvantage in lesstif, bugs aside.

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