Free Software audit update

[Rahul]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>> 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?

Agreed.  It is a set of values if you consider Free software that.


Rahul