Free Software audit update

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:41:10PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Lesstif isn't a drop-in replacement. It tries to clone the OpenMotif
> API, but it isn't ABI nor 100% API compatible.

It certainly doesn't try to be ABI compatible, for API issues "send patches"

> To me, OpenMotif is one of the foundations of my work. Petusus has just
> kicked my work off from Fedora and rendered Fedora into a platform not
> worth to be considered for a part of my work in future. So be it :)

For out of tree code you can package openmotif with your package so I
don't see a big problem. I'm sure several proprietary vendors will continue
to do that or static link motif as they do now.