LessTif

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LessTif
Developed by	Hungry Programmers
Latest release	0.95.0 / June 10, 2006
Written in	C
OS	Unix-like
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.^[1]

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 for free software applications. However, Open Motif itself is not free software, so the development of LessTif continues.