Free Software audit update

[Hans de Goede]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 06:52:53AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 03:29 +0530, Rahul wrote:
>>> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>>>> Too bad. I'm working on getting a package (opendx) which depends on openmotif
>>>> into Extras. Any viable openmotif replacements?
>> No.
>>
>>> Lesstif obviously.
>> Definitely non-obvious?
>>
>> Last time I checked, lesstif didn't really work "that well".
> 
> Were the lesstif developpers reluctant on fixing the bugs? Giving more 
> visibility to lesstif may help having the bugs solved, and maybe could
> lead openmotif to be turned into a free software. The promise to have
> openmotif licenced under a free software licence is there since many years,
> but nothing has happened.
>  
>> To me, dropping OpenMotif would be real regression.
> 
> openmotif isn't free software. Doing that switch is important in my opinion.
> 
> lesstif is known to work with most or all of the softwares shipped in fedora 
> extras and core.
> 
> If somebody really wants openmotif, he will certainly have the knowledge 
> to install it, but we really shouldn't provide openmotif, like any other
> non-free software.
> 

+1 (needless reallu, openmotif is in a very clear violation of the
guidelines and thus must go (period) . )

Regards,

Hans