Free Software audit update

[Arjan van de Ven]

> 
> > As such I agree with Ralf that this is a
> > religious belief, not about "free software" per se. 
> 
> It's about the definition of free software, (or about the definition of 
> fedora):
> 
> * if the definition of free software is the OSI definition then 
>   openmotif isn't free software.
> * If fedora is only made of OSI compliant softwares then openmotif 
>   shouldn't be in fedora.

that's still a belief. I'm not arguing against a belief; such beliefs
form a set of values, and those are generally good. I'm not arguing
against removing openmotif from fedora; it does violate a core fedora
belief and as such there's not much place for it in the distro [*]. 

But to pretend it's not a "belief" is almost dishonest. Free software as
a whole is already a "belief" in itself after all, and where exactly one
should draw the line is exactly such a belief. Sure it's codified in the
OSI guidelines, and that's good as well. But that doesn't make it any
less of a belief/set of values.


[*] It'd be interesting to find out why Red Hat added openmotif in the
first place, didn't they do a license audit at the time?