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. > 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. > Courage, commitment, freedom, and accountability have everything to do > with this. in this case of openmotif, the open motif license, when used in fedora, allows for modifications and distributions of those modifications both in binary and source code form. That fits some peoples definition of free software. What it doesn't allow is taking openmotif and putting it in, say, windows. Or in a Linux distro that integrates binary components in the kernel (but arguably copyright law doesn't allow that either ;). This clause is only slightly different than clause 2 of the GPL, and really only matters for non-Fedora. As such I agree with Ralf that this is a religious belief, not about "free software" per se. -- 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
