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Paul Fisher wrote in to say "RMS has posted an article that explains the problem with the BSD license, and why other non-copyleft licenses should be used instead, such as the XFree86-style license." A copy of his post is available on the web as well as on usenet.

Paul Fisher wrote in to say "RMS has posted an article that explains the problem with the BSD license, and why other non-copyleft licenses should be used instead, such as the XFree86-style license." A copy of his post is available on the web as well as on usenet.

Paul Fisher writes "Eben Moglen, professor of law and legal history at Columbia Law School, and Outside General Counsel to the Free Software Foundation, at the request of Richard Stallman, has recently written an article expressing legal views about the GPL/NPL/MPL license issues.". You can read it on the news server or on this web page.

Paul Fisher writes "Eben Moglen, professor of law and legal history at Columbia Law School, and Outside General Counsel to the Free Software Foundation, at the request of Richard Stallman, has recently written an article expressing legal views about the GPL/NPL/MPL license issues.". You can read it on the news server or on this web page.

Paul Fisher writes about RMSs latest NPL comments. Paul posted a copy of it here or you can read the threads at Netscape's license newsgroup or the gnu.misc.discuss version.

Paul Fisher writes about RMSs latest NPL comments. Paul posted a copy of it here or you can read the threads at Netscape's license newsgroup or the gnu.misc.discuss version.

Mike Linksvayer sent in this link and this one where you can read about the guys who created LesTif, and how they are now going to try to create an Official GNU version on the Java Virtual Machine. With Kaffe going proprietary, and all the hoopla surrounding HP and Microsoft's JVMs, I think we need a solution with open source or Java is going to be so fragmented that it will be useless on the net. Not that it's exactly spectacular today.

Paul Fisher wrote in to tell us that the 1.0 version of Swing is now available. He also pointed me to Metal Theme. The new AWT features pluggable look and feel, and this is the first demo of it. The hi tech UI is sorta a cross between modern MacOS, BeOS, and some X UIs. Very nice looking if you're into that sort of thing (And I know you E users are)