Re: XForms: Open Source -- Finally

From: Bill Unruh (unruh@physics.ubc.ca)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 14:29:49 EST


# To subscribers of the xforms list from Bill Unruh <unruh@physics.ubc.ca> :

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 spl@ncmir.ucsd.edu wrote:

> # To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@ncmir.ucsd.edu :
>
> Ta dah!
>
> This is *NOT* an April Fools prank. This is not a test. This is an actual
> provisional release of XForms as Open Source.
>
> Appended is the README file.
>
> Rock and roll.
>
> spl
>
> = = =
>
> XForms Version 0.9999
>
> This is the first Open Source distribution of the XForms Libreary, a
> graphical user interface toolkit for X Window Systems. It should be
> considered "provisional". Hence the Version 0.9999. There should be
> several more 9's following the decimal point.

Great

>
> It should work under X11 R4, R5 & R6. XForms is free and unrestricted
> for non-commercial and non-profit use. It is licensed under the LGPL
> (Lesser Gnu Public License) version 2.1.

This paragraph seems confusing. LGPL does not restrict to non-commercial
and non-profit. If this is really LGPL then that additional restriction
would seem to be contradictory. Or does this mean that for
non-commercial use, even LGPL does not apply?

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