Free Software audit update

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 00:02 -0400, Michael Tiemann wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 05:50 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> > > Ok my wording might not have been entirely appropriate but it doesnt 
> > > meet the packaging guidelines for either Free software 
> > > (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motif.html) or open source software 
> > > (http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/faq.html) and should be removed from 
> > > the distribution.
> > Yes, OpenMotif is not a copyright nor a legal issue. It's a religious
> > one. It's licence doesn't meet the some people's "confession/belief"
> 
> Ralf,
> 
> I disagree.  Fedora was constituted as a free software distribution.
Nope, RH established Fedora, based on some RH circles
"confession/belief" and "business objectives".

People like me contribute to the Fedora Project because some of its
objectives to some extend intersect with some aspects of theirs. 
I.e. though I share aspects of RH's and "The Fedora Project"'s
objectives, mine are not identical to theirs.

One of them I do NOT share, is this what I consider to be a
"fundamentalistic religious view" on OpenSource.

E.g. I do not care about the OSI. However, I do care about legal
restrictions and consequences from them.

Wrt. to OpenMotif this to me means: If shipping OpenMotif is a REAL
LEGAL threat to Fedora, remove OpenMotif and replace it with Lesstif. If
there isn't any, I don't see any reason to change anything about current
practice.

> There were many struggles and false starts along the way, and we all
> have the battle scars to prove that.  But things are getting better, and
> now we are in a position to make good on a promise we made at the start
> of the project.  Religion has nothing whatsoever to do with this.
You won't like what I am going to say, now, but I feel I can't avoiding
expressing this: IMO, it's religion only, and it's RH who utilizes
Fedora as a means for a crusade (In the religious sense).

Ralf