> > > As such I agree with Ralf that this is a > > religious belief, not about "free software" per se. > > It's about the definition of free software, (or about the definition of > fedora): > > * if the definition of free software is the OSI definition then > openmotif isn't free software. > * If fedora is only made of OSI compliant softwares then openmotif > shouldn't be in fedora. that's still a belief. I'm not arguing against a belief; such beliefs form a set of values, and those are generally good. I'm not arguing against removing openmotif from fedora; it does violate a core fedora belief and as such there's not much place for it in the distro [*]. But to pretend it's not a "belief" is almost dishonest. Free software as a whole is already a "belief" in itself after all, and where exactly one should draw the line is exactly such a belief. Sure it's codified in the OSI guidelines, and that's good as well. But that doesn't make it any less of a belief/set of values. [*] It'd be interesting to find out why Red Hat added openmotif in the first place, didn't they do a license audit at the time? -- 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
