openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

[Rex Dieter]

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topic are available at
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Per discussion on the Fedora Advisory Board mailing list, openmotif
currently does not meet Fedora's licensing requirements.  The openmotif
developers have been contacted, but it appears openmotif's licensing
will not be changing soon.

The hard decision has been made that openmotif will be removed from
Fedora and the current plan is to make this happen by October 2, 2006,
the final development freeze for Fedora Core 6.

Currently, the following packages in Core and Extras contain runtime or
build time dependencies on openmotif:
  * cmucl
  * ddd
  * geomview
  * gpsd
  * grace
  * Inventor
  * mesa-libGLw
  * nedit
  * xlockmore
  * xpdf

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.