José Matos wrote:
On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:48, Rex Dieter wrote:
Maintainers need to update their packages to use another motif
implementation, lesstif (in Extras). It is not 100% ABI-compatible (and
provides a different shared library soname), but all that should be
required for most motif-dependent applications is changing
BuildRequires: openmotif-devel
to
BuildRequires: lesstif-devel
and rebuilding/recompiling.
Will lesstiff be available for older distributions (FC3 and FC4) or does
this only applies to FC6?
For now, FC6 only yes.
I would like to rebuild grace and to know what the targets are.
Incidentally I queried the license of the listed packages and I got:
$ repoquery --queryformat "%{name}\t%{license}" cmucl ddd geomview gpsd \
grace Inventor mesa-libGLw nedit xlockmore xpdf
grace GPL
ddd GPL or BSD
cmucl Public Domain/MIT
geomview LGPL
Inventor LGPL
nedit GPL
xpdf GPL
mesa-libGLw MIT/X11
gpsd BSD
xlockmore BSD
If we take the word that openmotif is essentially the IBM Public License (as
described in the openmotif forum), that license is incompatible with the GPL
so for those projects above we would need the license to be amended with that
exception or the final result is not distributable.
Another good reason why openmotif shouldn't be used.
-- Rex
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