openmotif gone in FC6, due to licensing issue.

[Justin Zygmont]

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Wallace Owen wrote:

> Hi, folks.
>
> I updated my so/ho machine from FC3 to FC6 this week.  Looks pretty, and
> as easy to get used to as an old slipper.
>
> But I have to support software that uses the Motif widget set, and
> discovered that because of licensing issues Red Hat is no longer
> distributing openmotif with Fedora.
>
> So I got the source tarball from OSF, and tried to install it.  No good.
> openmotif can not be built on FC6 because it needs but can't
> find /usr/include/X11/extensions/Print.h and libXp.so, which are no
> longer provided by RedHat.
>
> Does anyone know:
>
> 1) why libXp was removed (some other license issue?)?
>
> 2) how to get it back (what X SRPM do I need to build, and what do
>   I need to change in it's build script to re-enable creation of
>   libXp)?

I was also disappointed by this, I always used motif, but I guess there 
was a licensing problem so they didn't want to include it anymore.  You 
can get prebuilt rpms from rpmbone.net, or even the FC5 rpms seem to be 
pretty much the same.