Free Software audit update

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 18 August 2006 at 23:30, Rahul wrote:
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:58:39PM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> >>THE KNOWNS (2):
> >>Packages with non-free licenses that need to be taken out of Fedora Core
> >>and moved to Fedora Extras (or trashed entirely)
> >>#######################################################################
> >>openmotif-*        || Open Group Public    || Bugzilla 202527
> >
> >openmotif doesn't seems to me to be free enough to be in fedora extras, 
> >since it hasn't an OSI compatible licence.
> >
> 
> Fedora Core packages dependent on openmotif are xpdf, ddd. tetex-xdvi, 
> mesa-libGLw as stated in the above bug report.  If there are many 
> packages dependent on openmotif in Fedora Extras we could do this as a 
> two step process.
> 
> * Move all openmotif dependencies and openmotif itself into Fedora Extras
> * Fix or drop packages as necessary.
> 
> The advantage of moving it into Fedora Extras is that the broader 
> community of packages can work on this and resolve things faster.

Too bad. I'm working on getting a package (opendx) which depends on openmotif
into Extras. Any viable openmotif replacements?

Regards,
R.

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