Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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.
To be clear, I didn't write any of the above. Your comment is in
response to one of the other persons, but misattributed to me.
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.
Red Hat more or less uses the OSI definition of free software,
but there have been some historical exceptions, some of them
intentional, while others simply due to nobody doing an
exhaustive audit of all packages - until now...
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.
I'm not a religious zealot, so I wouldn't ever attempt to force
anyone to believe anything.
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?
Well um... for starters... I'm not a @redhat.com guy.
How about this: Why can't people like you allow other people to
express their opinions without taking a holier than thou approach
which is ironically the opposite of what you yourself are trying
to shove down my throat.
You don't have to like my opinion, nor to read it if you don't want
to. But I'll express it if I choose to do so, which I have.
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