Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 06:52:53AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 03:29 +0530, Rahul wrote: >>> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: >>>> Too bad. I'm working on getting a package (opendx) which depends on openmotif >>>> into Extras. Any viable openmotif replacements? >> No. >> >>> Lesstif obviously. >> Definitely non-obvious? >> >> Last time I checked, lesstif didn't really work "that well". > > Were the lesstif developpers reluctant on fixing the bugs? Giving more > visibility to lesstif may help having the bugs solved, and maybe could > lead openmotif to be turned into a free software. The promise to have > openmotif licenced under a free software licence is there since many years, > but nothing has happened. > >> To me, dropping OpenMotif would be real regression. > > openmotif isn't free software. Doing that switch is important in my opinion. > > lesstif is known to work with most or all of the softwares shipped in fedora > extras and core. > > If somebody really wants openmotif, he will certainly have the knowledge > to install it, but we really shouldn't provide openmotif, like any other > non-free software. > +1 (needless reallu, openmotif is in a very clear violation of the guidelines and thus must go (period) . ) Regards, Hans -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
