Free Software audit update

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Aug 20 15:39:14 UTC 2006


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
>>> To me, dropping OpenMotif would be real regression.
>>>
>> Clear cut violation of guidelines. Openmotif is proprietary software.
> 
> well openmotif is a "it's free for open source" license... so to call it
> proprietary... is not entirely fair either.

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.

Rahul




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