Free Software audit update

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Tue Aug 22 18:48:44 UTC 2006


On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:38:53PM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Christophe GRENIER wrote:
> 
> >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...

But... How are the soname changes handled in that case?

> lesstif (as-is) can (at least pretend to) replace openmotif-2.1, 
> providing libXm.so.2.

Although it is not ABI compatible. The softwares have to be recompiled.

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Pat




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