Re: The license of OpenMotif (Open Group Public License)

[Richard Fontana]

> On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 3:36 AM Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Is it necessary that an open source license must allow porting to
> > proprietary systems?  I don't think so today.  But based on what I
> > found out about the OpenMotif license, people actually thought that
> > back then.  This surprises me.  Has this changed?

I'm not sure if this was at all a concern in the past, but the license is
confusing in how it states the "open source" operating system limitation,
and it's possible to read it as prohibting, for example, running Open Motif
on a privately-modified version of Debian or Fedora.

Richard

The license of OpenMotif (Open Group Public License)

[Jon Stanley]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 9:11 PM Richard Fontana  wrote:
> , and it's possible to read it as prohibting, for example, running Open
> > Motif on a privately-modified version of Debian or Fedora.
>
> Richard

Or more applicably to the modern world, perhaps running it in a Docker
container that happens to be running on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
would be problematic since the underlying kernel is not open source? To
answer a question earlier in the thread, I firmly believe that such usage
must be allowed (especially as it involves no "porting" of any nature) in
order to qualify as free software.