On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:35 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Michael J. Knox wrote: > > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> To me, OpenMotif is one of the foundations of my work. Petusus has just > >> kicked my work off from Fedora and rendered Fedora into a platform not > >> worth to be considered for a part of my work in future. So be it :) > > > > No.. Petusus did no such thing. The license of OpenMotif is the problem. > > OpenMotif is not compatible with Fedora's license guidelines. Its grossly > > unfair to "point the finger" at a Fedora contributor for that. I could not disagree more, but I am not going to reiterate over this on this list again. > > Fedora is > > certainly not the first to drop the use of OpenMotif and port apps to use > > LessTif and I doubt it will be the last. > > I agree with the decision to remove OpenMotif from Fedora, but > what is a bit funny, is that the license was known for years to > not be the best license in the world, but it was included anyway. Yes, ... > I remember when Openmotif was added to the distro way back when > and all these issues came up... but it was decided to ship it > anyway. ;o) Yes, lesstif had not been much more but crap then. > There was no legal reason it couldn't be shipped of course, but > I never liked the fact it was part of the OS as it isn't really > true "free software" IMHO. This is the actual point: OpenMotif doesn't fit into the "definition of OSS" as RH dictated it to Fedora. Face it - RH is not alone on this planet, their "religion" is not the only "belief" and you can't force everybody to YOUR belief. > Either way though, I'm glad to _finally_ see Motif getting a fork > stuck in it, and I hope that Xaw and Xt follow suit in the future > just as a great symbolic gesture. ;o) <Sigh/> Why can't you @redhat.com-guys stop agitating against what doesn't fit into your "small-town world" and let the rest of the world live in peace? 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
