> Most major distros (e.g. SuSE and RedHat) abandoned Lesstif many years > ago, which had caused Lesstif to fall into the "black hole" of "nearly > dead projects". debian doesn't count? > > openmotif isn't free software. > You know, OpenMotif is a corner case wrt. "OpenSource". It is definitely not free software as defined by the OSI, and also because it is really not fres software: there are restrictions about using it on some platforms. > > Doing that switch is important in my opinion. > I could not disagree more. I feel your opinion to be a fundamentalist's > position, making an issue where the isn't any. It is not my position, it is the fedora position (I don't even have a clear idea of what is my position on that case). > OpenMotif has been part of most major Linux distros for many years. > I am not aware of any legal actions/threads against anybody because of > this. As said by others this is really not relevant, free software isn't 'redistributable in fedora' software. > It is known not to work in many cases and in many case to require > hacking and patching to get it going. This is not a rela blocker, and shouldn't block complying with fedora goals anyway. -- Pat -- 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
