openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

[Rex Dieter]

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Per discussion on the Fedora Advisory Board mailing list, openmotif 
currently does not meet Fedora's licensing requirements.  The openmotif 
developers have been contacted, but it appears openmotif's licensing 
will not be changing soon.

The hard decision has been made that openmotif will be removed from 
Fedora and the current plan is to make this happen by October 2, 2006, 
the final development freeze for Fedora Core 6.

Currently, the following packages in Core and Extras contain runtime or 
build time dependencies on openmotif:
  * cmucl
  * ddd
  * geomview
  * gpsd
  * grace
  * Inventor
  * mesa-libGLw
  * nedit
  * xlockmore
  * xpdf

Maintainers need to update their packages to use another motif 
implementation, lesstif (in Extras). It is not 100% ABI-compatible (and 
provides a different shared library soname), but all that should be 
required for most motif-dependent applications is changing

BuildRequires: openmotif-devel
to
BuildRequires: lesstif-devel

and rebuilding/recompiling.