Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 06/18/2003 - 15:05. General Questions
We are using an application that needs libXm.so.1 (Motif 1.2) and we have recently run into problems because the libXm.so.1 is Lesstif. The vendor sent us the OpenMotif version of libXm.so.1 to verify that the OpenMotif version would solve the problem. It does.
Now I am looking for a source for OpenMotif 1.2 for Linux. We are also looking for information on distributing OpenMotif 1.2.
Thanks, Steve Hild
I hope others more familiar with the intricacies of licensing will correct me if I am wrong, but I don`t believe that Motif 1.2 was made retroactively "open"; that is, the first version of Motif was 2.1.30, and the older versions of Motif are not covered by the open licensing arrangement.
Upgrading to the current version of Open Motif, based on the 2 series, is probably your best bet and also gains you several years of bug fixes and other improvements. And you know it already works for you!