On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 00:02 -0400, Michael Tiemann wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 05:50 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > Ok my wording might not have been entirely appropriate but it doesnt > > > meet the packaging guidelines for either Free software > > > (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motif.html) or open source software > > > (http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/faq.html) and should be removed from > > > the distribution. > > Yes, OpenMotif is not a copyright nor a legal issue. It's a religious > > one. It's licence doesn't meet the some people's "confession/belief" > > Ralf, > > I disagree. Fedora was constituted as a free software distribution. Nope, RH established Fedora, based on some RH circles "confession/belief" and "business objectives". People like me contribute to the Fedora Project because some of its objectives to some extend intersect with some aspects of theirs. I.e. though I share aspects of RH's and "The Fedora Project"'s objectives, mine are not identical to theirs. One of them I do NOT share, is this what I consider to be a "fundamentalistic religious view" on OpenSource. E.g. I do not care about the OSI. However, I do care about legal restrictions and consequences from them. Wrt. to OpenMotif this to me means: If shipping OpenMotif is a REAL LEGAL threat to Fedora, remove OpenMotif and replace it with Lesstif. If there isn't any, I don't see any reason to change anything about current practice. > There were many struggles and false starts along the way, and we all > have the battle scars to prove that. But things are getting better, and > now we are in a position to make good on a promise we made at the start > of the project. Religion has nothing whatsoever to do with this. You won't like what I am going to say, now, but I feel I can't avoiding expressing this: IMO, it's religion only, and it's RH who utilizes Fedora as a means for a crusade (In the religious sense). Ralf -- 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
