Free Software audit update

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:35 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Michael J. Knox wrote:
> > Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >> 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 :)
> > 
> > No.. Petusus did no such thing. The license of OpenMotif is the problem.
> > OpenMotif is not compatible with Fedora's license guidelines. Its grossly
> > unfair to "point the finger" at a Fedora contributor for that.
I could not disagree more, but I am not going to reiterate over this on
this list again.

> > Fedora is
> > certainly not the first to drop the use of OpenMotif and port apps to use
> > LessTif and I doubt it will be the last.
> 
> I agree with the decision to remove OpenMotif from Fedora, but
> what is a bit funny, is that the license was known for years to
> not be the best license in the world, but it was included anyway.
Yes, ...

> I remember when Openmotif was added to the distro way back when
> and all these issues came up... but it was decided to ship it
> anyway. ;o)
Yes, lesstif had not been much more but crap then.

> There was no legal reason it couldn't be shipped of course, but
> I never liked the fact it was part of the OS as it isn't really
> true "free software" IMHO. 
This is the actual point: OpenMotif doesn't fit into the "definition of
OSS" as RH dictated it to Fedora.

Face it - RH is not alone on this planet, their "religion" is not the
only "belief" and you can't force everybody to YOUR belief.

> Either way though, I'm glad to _finally_ see Motif getting a fork
> stuck in it, and I hope that Xaw and Xt follow suit in the future
> just as a great symbolic gesture.  ;o)
<Sigh/> Why can't you @redhat.com-guys stop agitating against what
doesn't fit into your "small-town world" and let the rest of the world
live in peace?

Ralf