UNIX Info

Today, May 15, 2000, The Open Group released the source code of Motif to the Open Source community. The Open Group Public license will allow the release of the Motif source code for use, reproduction and distribution on Open Source platforms such as Linux and FreeBSD, without the payment of royalties. The further details and the source code for Open Motif is now available at http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif.

Concurrent with this announcement, Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS), has released the "Open Motif Everywhere" distribution. In creating this distribution, ICS has compiled and tested Open Motif on a number of distributions including: Corel (Intel), FreeBSD (Intel), Linux PPC 2000 (PPC), Mandrake (Intel), Red Hat (Intel, Sparc, Alpha), Slackware (Intel), Storm 2000 (Intel), SuSE (Intel), and TurboLinux (Intel). RPMs, DEBs, and tar.gz are provided as appropriate for the specific distribution. Although not specifically tested, other distributions are also expected to work.

ICS is making the binaries and sources to Open Motif Everywhere available for free downloads through ICS' new Motif portal site, http://www.motifzone.net. The goal of the MotifZone is to provide a center for open source enhancements to Open Motif.

A CD-ROM distribution, containing all precompiled binaries, Open Motif source code, postscript versions of the official Motif 2.1 Manual set and email installation support is available through the MotifZone (http://www.motifzone.net) too. Annual support contracts are offered for commercial customers.

For more info, write info@ics.com or visit the MotifZone - http://www.motifzone.net