Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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?
Agreed. It is a set of values if you consider Free software that.
Rahul
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