[fab] Re: openmotif

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Aug 29 17:12:51 UTC 2006


Josh Boyer (jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org) said: 
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 12:53 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 August 2006 12:41, Rahul wrote:
> > > Yes.
> > >
> > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2006-August/msg00081.htm
> > >l
> > 
> > This mail has absolutely no info regarding why a package would be acceptable 
> > for Extras when it isn't acceptable for Core.  This disturbs me greatly.  If 
> > the license isn't good enough for core, it shouldn't be in Extras either.
> 
> +1
> 
> Extras is not a dumping ground for packages that aren't suitable for
> Core.  If someone wants to push a package from Core -> Extras, it still
> goes through a review.  Openmotif will fail that review immediately,
> given that it's license is not OSI compatible.

Right. However, we should *announce* that it's going away for FC-6, then
fix the dependent apps as best as possible, then remove it; not remove
first.

Bill




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