On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 21:58 +0530, Rahul wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > > Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Rex Dieter wrote: > >>> Rahul wrote: > >>>> Rex Dieter wrote: > >> > >>>>> Has anyone contacted openmotif about this? Any plans to do so? > >>>>> I'm of the opinion we should at least give them a chance to make > >>>>> things right before yanking this from the distribution. > >> > >>>> Noone I know has contacted openmotif on behalf of Fedora. I am > >>>> skeptical of this after all this time since the FAQ was published > >>>> but it has been suggested before and if you want to take a stab at > >>>> it, please go ahead. > >> > >>> OK, I'll give it shot. > >> > >> done, though someone (thanks giallu), beat me to the punch: > >> http://204.2.109.48/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3878#3878 > > > > So, if openmotif doesn't change their licensing soon, who can/will pull > > the trigger to remove openmotif from Fedora? > > > > IMO, it would be better to remove it sooner rather than later (who > > knows, maybe that'll speed the relicensing effort). > > > > -- Rex > > Since we have a number of dependencies, moving into Fedora Extras as a > intermediate step would be better than just dropping it. Given the tight FC-6 timeline, I think this may be our only option, but post-FC-6, I would hope that we'd move aggressively to remove it entirely. ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Technical Team Lead || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my! _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
