Free Software audit update

[Christophe GRENIER]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, 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.

Other than xpdf, the only reason I have to install openmotif are
two (ugly) non-free software:
- Oracle database
- Citrix ICAClient
Dropping openmotif would be a serious regression unless lesstif
works as a replacement...

Regards,
 	Christophe

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