pd@x.co.uk (Paul Davey) (03/19/91)
We at IXI also sell a Motif development kit for Suns with shared libraries. As a software supplier we ship static binaries for X.desktop since, 1) The shared libraries will often not be installed on end user machines 2) We don't want to pay a royalty to OSF by shipping shared libraries with our product We have however (I believe) supplied dynamic versions of X.desktop when customers have asked for this specially. I understand that OSF is addressing the problem of licencing dynamic libraries which are not supplied by the manufacturer (ie Sun). I usually recomend that folk develop with dynamic libraries and normally sell a static version. Obviously on machines where the dynamic libraries are provided by the manufacturer life is much simpler. -- Regards, pd@x.co.uk IXI Limited Paul Davey pd@ixi.uucp 62-74 Burleigh St. ...!uunet!ixi!pd Cambridge U.K. "These are interesting times" +44 223 462 131 CB1 1OJ USA: 1 800 XDESK 57