LessTif

Infobox Software
name = LessTif



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developer = Hungry Programmers
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latest release version = 0.95.0
latest release date = June 10, 2006
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programming language = C
operating system = Unix-like
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genre = Widget toolkit
license = GNU Lesser General Public License
website = http://www.lesstif.org/

LessTif is a free software reimplementation or clone of the Motif computer programming toolkit.LessTif is developed by the Hungry Programmers. [cite web
url=http://www.lesstif.org/
title=LessTif homepage
quote=LessTif is the Hungry Programmers' version of OSF/Motif®]

As opposed to Motif, which is distributed under a proprietary license that can require the payment of royalties, LessTif is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), a less restrictive, free software license. This makes LessTif more attractive to many developers, distributors and users. The licence of Motif was the main motivation for the development of LessTif.

LessTif aims for full source and binary compatibility with Motif. While this has not yet been achieved, many Motif applications run with LessTif and/or can be compiled with it.

After the release of Open Motif there is now a second alternative to replace Motif. However, Open Motif itself is not free software, so the development of LessTif continues.

See also

*History of free software

References

External links

* [http://www.lesstif.org/ LessTif homepage]
* [http://www.lesstif.org/future.html Statement on LessTif vs Open Motif]
* [http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/ Open Motif homepage at Open Group]
* [http://www.opengroup.org/motif/ Motif homepage at Open Group]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/lesstif/ LessTif] at SourceForge.net