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It might lead to some software that is not ported to MorphOS either because the programmer writing it does not like the fact that MUI for MorphOS is not ported to other Amiga inspired platforms, or they used some incompatible part of the ?hacked? MUI4 for AmigaOS3.x & 4.x.

You are probably right that it is unlikely that leaving things just as they are now will not hurt the MorphOS users much, but it does leave a bad impression with some of the users of Amiga inspired platforms other than MorphOS, when MUI for MorphOS is not available for their chosen platform.

The bad feelings regarding the unauthorized use of parts of MUI4 for MorphOS (I think it was header files, or documentation, or some such files) would never have happened, if MUI4 for MorphOS would have been licensed to programmers of AROS, AmigaOS3.x & 4.x. I write that not to imply in any way that the behavior of copying and altering someone else's code is ever justified, only that it would never have happened, if all Amiga inspired platforms had access to the latest MUI4 features. They obviously want to use MUI4, or it would not have been copied. The jerks that did the copying should not have altered it, and should have asked for permission first. They were wrong in every sense of the word.

All I am saying is that we don't need any additional reasons for bad feelings between different camps in our community, so if MUI4 could have been licensed, perhaps paid for with a bounty, like the sharing of OWB code was done, we would not have any of this problem for some people to fight about.

I am all for less fighting, as it doesn't help anyone, and only hurts all of us.