openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

[Rex Dieter]

José Matos wrote:
> On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:48, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> 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.
> 
>   Will lesstiff be available for older distributions (FC3 and FC4) or does 
> this only applies to FC6?

For now, FC6 only yes.

>   I would like to rebuild grace and to know what the targets are.
> 
>   Incidentally I queried the license of the listed packages and I got:
> 
> $ repoquery --queryformat "%{name}\t%{license}" cmucl ddd geomview gpsd \
>  grace Inventor mesa-libGLw nedit xlockmore xpdf
> grace   GPL
> ddd     GPL or BSD
> cmucl   Public Domain/MIT
> geomview        LGPL
> Inventor        LGPL
> nedit   GPL
> xpdf    GPL
> mesa-libGLw     MIT/X11
> gpsd    BSD
> xlockmore       BSD
> 
>   If we take the word that openmotif is essentially the IBM Public License (as 
> described in the openmotif forum), that license is incompatible with the GPL 
> so for those projects above we would need the license to be amended with that 
> exception or the final result is not distributable.

Another good reason why openmotif shouldn't be used.

-- Rex