Is there an intent to distribute a Linux-x86_64 binary?

[ERSEK Laszlo]

Hi,

may I ask what the status/policy on centrally distributing a Linux-x86_64 
binary is? I just checked

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/editors/nedit/NEdit/v5_5/executables/

and I found no such distribution. I've found some relevant messages / bugs 
on the net:

http://www.nedit.org/pipermail/discuss/2005-August/007508.html
http://www.nedit.org/pipermail/develop/2008-March/014460.html
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=111005&aid=1490741&group_id=11005

It seems to me that when these messages were written, nedit was already 64 
bit clean, and the only cause for the missing Linux-x86_64 binary package 
was the (perceived) lack of a 64 bit OpenMotif 2.1 library.

A few months ago, I downloaded a binary 64 bit OpenMotif-2.1.32 package 
from

http://www.ist.co.uk/DOWNLOADS/motif_download.html

specifically the "Linux - 64-bit (SuSE 9.2 (Linux 2.6.5))" version. 
(Running "curl -I" now on the package's URL says "Last-Modified: Mon, 26 
Nov 2007 17:50:22 GMT".)

I extracted (not installed) the .rpm archive on the Debian Etch (and 
later, Lenny) system in question and compiled nedit-5.5 from source 
against it. It works flawlessly. "nedit -V" says (run as a remote X 
client):

NEdit 5.5
Sep 30, 2004

      Built on: Linux, x86-64, GNU C
      Built at: Sep 13 2008, 13:06:35
    With Motif: 2.1.32 [@(#)Motif Version 2.1.32]
Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
        Server: The Cygwin/X Project 10503000
        Visual: 32-bit TrueColor (ID 0x3a)
        Locale: C

The IST site states: "OpenMotif at any version is only available under the 
terms of the Open Group license" 
(http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/). Does this license allow 
nedit.org to distribute a statically linked 64 bit binary? I would think 
so, since I seem to remember that the Linux-x86 (32 bit) distribution is 
already statically linked against OpenMotif-2.1.30.

Thanks,
lacos