Free Software audit update

José Matos jamatos at fc.up.pt
Fri Aug 18 21:57:28 UTC 2006


On Friday 18 August 2006 22:30, 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.

$ grep -l openmotif */devel/*.spec | sed -e 's|/devel/.*||'
cernlib
cmucl
fbida
geomview
gpsd
grace
Inventor
nedit
xlockmore

  AFAIK grace can be built from lesstif. :-)

> * 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.
>
> Rahul

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