Stephan Kulow
2012-05-10 09:52:49 UTC
Hi,
For some reason we have one non-oss package in our oss repo and this
needs to be fixed - so I would like to drop openmotif from oss and
move it (and it's dependencies).
To quote from http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/faq.html:
The Open Group Public License for Motif grants rights only to use the
software on or with operating systems that are themselves Open
Source programs. In restricting the applicability of the license to
Open Source platforms this does not meet term 8 of the Open Software
Definition (http://www.opensource.org/osd.html).
Now the FAQ also claims they will make an open source release rather
soon, but that document was updated last 2004 - and I don't think we
will see a lot of new motif software in openSUSE in the future.
Right now we have this list of packages that buildrequires openmotif:
ddd
dx
libGLw
MesaGLw
mfsm
mgdiff
TeX-Guy
timidity
vtk
xawtv
xgrabsc
xibod
xmgrace
xmoontool
xpdf-poppler
yudit
7 of those are on DVD and would be removed from it - and move to non-oss
addon:
ddd
MesaGLw
TeX-Guy
timidity
xawtv
xpdf-poppler
yudit
Greetings, Stephan
For some reason we have one non-oss package in our oss repo and this
needs to be fixed - so I would like to drop openmotif from oss and
move it (and it's dependencies).
To quote from http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/faq.html:
The Open Group Public License for Motif grants rights only to use the
software on or with operating systems that are themselves Open
Source programs. In restricting the applicability of the license to
Open Source platforms this does not meet term 8 of the Open Software
Definition (http://www.opensource.org/osd.html).
Now the FAQ also claims they will make an open source release rather
soon, but that document was updated last 2004 - and I don't think we
will see a lot of new motif software in openSUSE in the future.
Right now we have this list of packages that buildrequires openmotif:
ddd
dx
libGLw
MesaGLw
mfsm
mgdiff
TeX-Guy
timidity
vtk
xawtv
xgrabsc
xibod
xmgrace
xmoontool
xpdf-poppler
yudit
7 of those are on DVD and would be removed from it - and move to non-oss
addon:
ddd
MesaGLw
TeX-Guy
timidity
xawtv
xpdf-poppler
yudit
Greetings, Stephan
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