On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 09:16 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > 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? Not that much, because their "religiousness on OpenSource" makes one essential difference to Fedora and is one core reason why people are using Fedora. If I was "religious on OpenSource", I was using Debian, and not wasting my time on Fedora. If Fedora is heading down the same lane, there isn't much reason for Fedora to exist. > > > 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. As well as is Qt (QPL). > > 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. I disagree. IMO, both OpenMotif and Fedora are redistributable. The impact of the OpenMotif "royalty fee" clause doesn't impact Fedora, because Fedora shipping GPL'ed SW has analogous side-effects on the Fedora distro. > > 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. Great, function isn't of any importance in Fedora ... 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
