[Info-vax] VLF: The 35th Anniversary Communique from the VMS Liberation Front

[David Goodwin]

In article <508a038c$0$38722$c3e8da3$aae71a0a at news.astraweb.com>, 
jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca says...
> 
> On 12-10-25 21:19, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 
> > It may well be that they don't own all of the IP hidden in VMS.
> 
> You mean to say that Hoff didn't write VMS all by himself and copied his
> homework from other students in class ? :-) :-)
> 
> If there are portions bound by copyright, then HP would have contracts
> that grant them limited use of certain technologies to be embedded in
> VMS. It shouldn't be hard to find the drawer that contains those
> contracts. And most companies that did that no longer exist anyways (for
> instance, the DHCP server and GUI management tools came from Join which
> no longer exist)
> 
> X/Motif is interesting because it is proprietary when embeded in a
> commercial system, but opensourced when embedded in an opensource
> system. This is why it is available on the hobbyist systems, but for
> commercial sales, HP has to hand over royalty money to X consortium or
> whoever.

Actually, as of a few days ago Motif was released under the LGPL making 
it open source everywhere:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/motif/

CDE was also released under the LGPL back in August (with a possibility 
of going MIT licensed in the future) and people have been busy cleaning 
it up and porting it to modern 64bit Linux and *BSD systems:
http://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/